If you’re gonna hold a bird, you have to hold it with a certain tension, or it will fly away. But if you crush it, you’re gonna kill it. I gotta learn how to hold the bird.
If you’re gonna hold a bird, you have to hold it with a certain tension, or it will fly away. But if you crush it, you’re gonna kill it. I gotta learn how to hold the bird.
“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