“But I do wonder - what does the creator of such intimate revelatory pieces as “Like They Do in the Movies” gain from this public sale of their most intimate self?” This is such an important question, one I struggled with a lot in writing my books. It’s why it’s so important to me that there is a politics at work in my poems, if not always explicitly in individual poems dealing with trauma, at least in the collection as a whole that provides the context for those poems.
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“But I do wonder - what does the creator of such intimate revelatory pieces as “Like They Do in the Movies” gain from this public sale of their most intimate self?” This is such an important question, one I struggled with a lot in writing my books. It’s why it’s so important to me that there is a politics at work in my poems, if not always explicitly in individual poems dealing with trauma, at least in the collection as a whole that provides the context for those poems.