Maggie Nelson Examines Freedom and its Limitations
"Nelson describes herself as a 'disobedient thinker,' someone who enjoys looking at 'the difficulty of difficult things,' and this conversation bears that out. We talk about when and whether freedom is hard to bear, the difference between a state of liberation and the daily practice of freedom, the hard conversations sexual liberation demands."
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What Sparks Poetry:
G.C. Waldrep on Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer"
"It's not misdirection for art's sake; it's misdirection as mimesis, the mind's if not the external world's, the shared world's. Or maybe it is, as Kelly would perhaps have insisted, the shared world's way, after all. That, and the poem's music, which is the world's music, that goes on and on, and in which we are invited—really, commanded—to participate, for a little while." |
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