writing is definitely so very vulnerable no matter how much or how little of the personal you consciously inject into it i've found >_< but omg bernadette mayer.... queued up your VN the second i read this & i am so excited to sit down with it !
i'm glad to hear it and hope you like it! (although given the content i do not begrudge anyone if they don't click with it). she was probably like the first poet we really glommed onto, and we have a lot of fun doing exercises to see what our spin on her voice is, and we do wanna try and do more of that along the lines of Desires of Mothers and the journals that resulted in Studying Hunger. her stuff to us is like getting to see inside a person's brain in real time lmao