What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Definitely HD, who I talked about earlier, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, Nickole Brown, Harryette Mullen, there are for sure too many to list—every time I read a poet it changes something about the way I see poetry. Right now I am reading The Four-Legged Girl by Diane Suess, and after that will be W. Todd Kaneko’s This is How the Bone Sings, then Angelique Zobitz’s new chapbook Burn Down Your House. It takes me a while lately to get through books, though—because of the pandemic and mothering. I miss being able to just read EVERYTHING.
I love books that make me think “I wish I could do that,” and I also want to be doing something different from everyone else, which is a lofty goal, I know.
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