Class is the great hidden identifier in American life. Since I tend to focus my poetry on that which is ‘hidden in plain view,’ class has probably been foregrounded in my work and my sensitivity to it has been increased as a result of being a poet.
“Fiction can be a place to change and examine society’s morals and values. It can be a place where we can examine whether or not said values are suffocating, where we can debate what morality actually is, we can play with it, we can break and bend social mores. Literature is a place outside of real life, which makes it a place where we can experiment.”
Elle Nash