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I WANT TO START BY SAYING: An Interview with Samuel Ace

“…an insistence on this is rather than what might be…”

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MECHANICAL BULL: An Interview with Rennie Ament

“I’m stretching and stressing out the language to see what it can do.”

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“So that’s the process part. But the patterning is more mysterious.”

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“I learned that I could go deep into taboo, faith, and ceremony. That poetry can open those doors.”

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“Ha, you get the idea. I think making a poem is a pretty dangerous thing to do.”

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“I read Render today, and I learn again about hope.”

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“One approaches a thing that seems solid from a distance, then finds oneself lost inside of it, in the body of a cloud.”

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“I feel like all influences are both internal and external, everything is real and fantasy at the same time.”

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“He was an outsider, often painfully so, and as such his work challenges notions of queerness, madness, poetry itself in powerful, meaningful ways.”