"When you name something, you are pointing at the world. When you describe it, you are sharing it or evoking it through your filter. Are we our filters? Are we the prisms that the light shines through? I think great literature is about the reader, not the author."

"All language is staged; all sentences are speech acts. Similarly, all actions—even walking—are choreographed to some extent. Practice and intentionality are needed."

"I was lying in a hospital bed with no nouns, no story. There was no narrator and yet something remained, existed, continued. It was both terrifying and liberating."

scowly

Aw, thanks, Mitch. That means a lot to me. 💜

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I had read and loved Postcolonial Love Poem before planning this class, but Echidna was a recommendation from a stranger in a poetry group on Faceblurgh. So so glad to have added both of ranapiri's collections to my shelf/life/canon.