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INTRODUCTION
If I could go back ten years and tell myself one thing about writing, it might be this: You can continue believing in a poem while also questioning and pushing it into a wilder and more emotionally precise version of itself. (Have I learned this yet? I’m trying.) Muriel Rukeyser might have said it best in her 1949 essay collection
The Life of Poetry: “We are poets; we can make the words. The emotional obstacle is the real one.” To me these sentences speak to the writer’s experience in two related ways. First: the hard part of being a writer isn’t just the actual writing it’s also the emotional obstacles, the anxiety and the self-doubt, that arise along the journey from idea to notes to draft to revision to revision to r
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This modern man Habib bin Habib al Fulan buzzes into the first pawnshop in Florida City with shoulders sunk down and a thousand-mile stare. He clutches an acoustic guitar by the body like a farmer holding a chicken.
He joins a line of people and waits.