One is that I'm the first reader, and so I'm always writing these poems to myself, and my self - my self as a reader - is someone who wants to be transformed in the process of reading poems. I don't want to read a poem that I already know. (Ross Gay)

One is that I'm the first reader, and so I'm always writing these poems to myself, and my self - my self as a reader - is someone who wants to be transformed in the process of reading poems. I don't want to read a poem that I already know.

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