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How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Evolution from Poetry to Nonfiction
The speaker's journey from being a poet to venturing into nonfiction writing was influenced by a deep interest in language and specificity, sparked by reading renowned poets such as Sylvia Plath. This interest in understanding and voicing women's experiences led to a fascination with the porousness between self-reflection and observing the world. Initially immersed in fiction and poetry writing, the speaker's project of writing a nonfiction book evolved over 10 years as a means to address personal and family tensions, initially intended to solve problems of the American West and eventually intertwining with events in the speaker's personal life.
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