“Illustrated literature hasn’t really been popular since the nineteenth century. I would like to open the discussion around that form again, to see what we can do with it.”
“Are these instances magic? Are they myths? To us, they’re just part of life.”
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
Within the violence of that work I find a space to explore myself, a hostile and empty space with which to reconfigure myself.
“The printer as designer, actual mechanic, person laying down the ink, and also the writer and artist is the historical model we’re looking at.”
You can start looking for things that aren’t there. If a poem elicits an emotional response, you don’t need to pull it apart to figure out why.
“I don’t know if my longing to incorporate all of the voices I’ve heard and still seek out wouldn’t be as present as it is if I didn’t come up in a place where there were so many singing, harmonizing with the city.”
“I believe that part of the task of translation is to help us explore that complexity rather than looking away, and to understand difference instead of erasing it.”
On some level, Vermont remains the arugula-chomping hippie at the farmers’ market, while New Hampshire is still a guy asserting his right to mow the lawn while naked.
“And here’s the thing: even if folks are from the ghetto or the reservation, their lives do not fit into these predetermined binaries.”