“Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.” NeedsAliveSeeingComplexityGrit Author:Alex Lemon
“Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.” WorldWayNeedsWritingKindDoeBitsVolatilityFerocity Author:Alex Lemon