
Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)
Of Poetry Podcast
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"I wanted it to be a gentle tender journey and want to intimacy I really wanted to write the poems that I had wanted to have as a younger person," she says. "There's a lot going on in those ellipses which I encourage everyone to look up totally yeah but I also like imagine that that presence is also there." The book positions itself with great intentionality your book doesn't position itself as an outwardly facing queer text right like a reader might not know that from the blurb so you know might not knowThat from the epigraph.
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