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Darkness Plays Favorites. Chronology of an Egg. But I no longer felt that was required for honour. Some people might feel it was.
This is not a fair or a balanced book. It is written from the left wife's point of view, so it is limited. Auden warned that personal poetry was using up "capital". I see it as capital in the bank. When I started writing, women's lives were not much written about much; I felt poems were about making rather than using something up.
Does writing about pain distance it or bring it closer? Does poetry, once finished, become about someone else? A poem doesn't intensify experience, it adds to it.
And it is not about a different person, is it? It is the same person who has made a song. I love to describe things and have a companionable feeling about objects. And people who grow up with some degree of violence in the home — in my case not sexual but physical violence — know what it is like to feel like a thing.
They look at other kids, try to see how it would be to feel fully like a person. I grew up in a Calvinist, punitive atmosphere — hell featured in the future, punishment in the present. It is a lifelong labour trying to turn away from lies such as that one is worthless. One has to turn towards the truth of our good fortune in being here with one another. I was I would not have known how. What I had to do was persevere. I have always had the blessing of many intensely close friends.
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