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James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully?

Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking anything, and I suppose the tool for mitigating emotion is undercutting, but I’ll try to answer the question sideways: Even if you don’t believe in God, you have to believe in narrative. Things happen, one after another, world without end. Just because you’re self-aware doesn’t mean you can change what’s happening. Eventually someone is going to break your heart. Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking “I am falling to the floor crying” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it—you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well and when you’re having sex with your next lover on this very floor they will also notice that you didn’t paint it very well and they will think less of you for it. And then you think “Is that sentence too long?” And then you have to hold the  contradictions of sobbing uncontrollably and wondering about grammar in your head at the same time. I think if you are true to the entire experience, not just the sad part, you don’t risk sentimentality because you’re not overloading the experience with fake, melodramatic feeling. I also hear that whispering helps.

(via ahuntersheart)

#james hall #interview #poetry #poem #quote #favourite

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AHHH LETS GOOO

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AND I HOPE IT'S SHITTY! IN THE BLACK DOG!

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'cause i'm miserable :) and nobody even knows :) !!! (we all knew)

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people who hate taylor swift have to be the biggest losers of the idgaf war like they physically cannot shut up about her even if their lives depended on it

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Florence Welch and Taylor Swift via Jack Antonoff's Instagram 🌿

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She’s just like me fr

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like or reblog 🌙

#ttpd

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I think it’s the cutest thing that she used the same guitar riff from Fifteen for So High School. SO CUTE!!

#fifteen #so high school #travis kelce #taylor and travis #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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inside the manuscript vinyl 🤍

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smth i also love about i look through peoples windows is what a great and perfect metaphor it is for social media . like constantly checking the social medias of people you used to know or even the people that know them now. the way social media has become windows into people lives that shes peering into. all without feeling obvious and being a seamless metaphor/storytelling device

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i have not stopped laughing at this

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"we learned the right steps to different dances" is such a beautiful way to explain that nobody did anything wrong but it does not work out if you have different goals or different ideals of life, maybe sometimes things don't work out and it is nobodys fault

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on ttpd taylor is like I'm a criminal, I'm evil, I'm jesus, I'm a greek prophet, I'm a superstar, I'm a ghost, I'm wendy, I'm completely broken, I'm moving on

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And you were right! 😭

i think miss taylor queen of bait and switch swift will be very big on this album

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TTPD really weeds out the bandwagon fans who only like her bc it’s trendy now