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Kelli Russell Agodon
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Wonderful Interview with Leah Umansky and her new book, OF TYRANT
Interview with Leah Umansky: Looking for Moments of Goodness—Start Noticing
TSP: Congratulations on your upcoming poetry collection, Of Tyrant, in which you have a skilled and beautiful way of playing with space, employing the use of repetition which sometimes resembles litanies, and mixing the political with the personal.
As readers, at times we feel drawn
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"OMFG and Holy F*cking Keeeeryst! Agodon's 4th collection is a tsunami & a tidal wave of a book. From the first line of the first poem ("If we never have enough love, we have more than most.") to the last line of the final poem ("... the best advice s"
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"I read poetry to be soothed or inspired, to find solace in images and emotions, to learn how to use the same language in new and powerful ways. I am often moved to tears by a visceral connection with a line, a euphony, or an image. But it's a rare po"
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“If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.”
― Hourglass Museum
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.”
― Hourglass Museum
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.”
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“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”
― Choke
Like somehow we're running out of time.”
― Choke
“Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.”
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Hey Kelli...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
You are so welcome!