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True ambition in a poet seeks fame in the old sense, to make words that live forever. If even to entertain such ambition reveals monstrous egotism, let me argue that the common alternative is petty egotism that spends itself in small competitiveness, that measures its success by quantity of publication, by blurbs on jackets, by small achievement:
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âBeing able to say âthis is who I amâ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I donât think I w
... See moreEloghosa Osunde âą A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.
âPoems are not the words themselves but what the words transmit. Not the thunderclap, but how our bodies respond to the boom.â
From Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power