“I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.” ThinkingWantWritingRoomsDoors Book:The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems Source: The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems
“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.” WritingYearsSelfBodyAbleFallMy OwnPoetMaterialsReturnFalling In LoveDetailsSensualAlienationTry AgainRaw MaterialsAnother WomanLiving FullyDetails Of Life Author:Minnie Bruce Pratt
