Vibes

“A lot of ways that people gin themselves up to write poetry nowadays require a setting aside of certain crass realities. Crass realities of everyday colloquial communication; crass realities of money and power and sex; crass realities of the ‘I’ in its filthier manifestations. A lot of contemporary poetry has manufactured these great machines for avoiding coarseness — the dream of an escape.”

Lorin Stein