
Sharon Olds’s huge archive of thinking and feeling

When I write, the words come out in a flood. But they’re almost never in the right order. And then I have to figure out the correct order. Arranging and rearranging to see if they feel right. Liz Gilbert once interviewed a poet who said her poems often show up backwards. Like she caught them by the tail and has to rearrange them.
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