Ross Gay - Terrifying Tenderness

Poet Ross Gay talks about how male intimacy is often mediated by violence, why it is important for him that the body be present in his poems, and how line-breaks speak to our mortality.
Interview conducted in Spring 2015 by Elizabeth Hoover for the Furious Flower Poetry Center's literary magazine, The Fight & the Fiddle.
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[@Matt-w4b]

curious questions, expressive faces, long pauses with white noise on the mic... beautiful

[@bluemuyunda4145]

lovely interviewer. brought gems out of the man. Thank you both for sharing your presence.

[@AlysonArchibequeDavis-kv1bx]

Listening now in the age of AI brings a new weight to his statements about poetry coming from a body.