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wherever you get your podcast. As a poet you concentrate on the line to line.

And that means that sometimes the general arc of something can suffer.

So if you're writing something that is a memoir about your life, you have to make it seem like there was a narrative arc which lives don't necessarily feel that way. So my skill as a poet is concentrating on the units.

Oh yeah, let's just let that one sit there.

That was Patricia Lockwood.

I'm San Francisco, this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Petition lock will Patricia Lockwood has many titles which is odd because as the New York Times

wrote in 2014 she scarcely ever held a job this This is not to suggest the Fort Wayne-born writer is

unemployable or unambitious. The opposite in fact. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and sometimes critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker,

the London Review of Books, and Tin House.

More specifically, she's been hailed as the poet laureate of Twitter, and at once

searing and satirical voice of sanity 140 characters at a time. But it wasn't only rabid Twitter followers that found Lockwood's profane brand of humor

worthwhile. After the publication of a polemical piece called The Rape Joke, the Guardian

credited Lockwood for re- and new generation's interest in poetry.

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