"I often start with a question as big and unwieldy as why do we have children – or what are we investing in when we love and raise our children; it’s a process of looking for structures – images or rhetorical figures – that will contain my questions."
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On writing poetry in “Gregory Pardlo: How I Write” in The Writer (2019 Jul 17)
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