My eating disorder was (is) rooted in rebellion. I was both rebellious and anxious as an adolescent—far too anxious to risk getting into real trouble via drugs, alcohol, vandalism, etc. My rebellion found a perfect vehicle in food. At once innocuous and erotic, it allowed me access to a kind of introverted wildness. Here were materials I could, without repercussion, get high on (food) and deface (my own body).
Jeremy Radin on "Tony Roma's" |
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"Poem of the Week: Sibelius"
"John Greening’s latest collection, The Silence, begins with this week’s poem, "Sibelius," and concludes with the title sequence, a long, mesmeric fusion of biographical narrative and meditation, structured in formal quatrains."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Donna Stonecipher on "études"
"I have read a wide shelf’s worth of books of translation theory, but when I actually sit down to translate, especially poetry, all of that beautifully formulated theory goes out the window, and I am faced with the poet’s mind, and my mind, and how I am going to get them to work together." |
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