"Some writers want to write something that doesn’t exist within a time, but I’m not interested in that. I want to capture particular moments in time…I’ve always seen my writing as an attempt to document and be specific in that documentation."
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On her poetry not existing in a vacuum in “You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker” in The Paris Review (2016 Jul 22)
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