My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
“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.
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Ron Silliman