From The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuse and Resistance:
Writing seemed to stitch together the hurt disjoint between my bodily and psychic experience and my ability to speak through that experience. The idea that I could be a writer gave me comfort.
Though I would say “hope” instead of “comfort,” I don’t think I’ve ever read something that so thoroughly captures why I became a writer, and that is as true of the writing I read when I was younger as of the writing I did.
