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A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

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Alex Lemon

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Alive, Complexity, Grit, Needs, Unabashedly
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My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

Conversation, Crucible, Direct, Everything, Language, Poems

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

Failure, Joy, Knives, Lives, Stories

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Life, Mortality, Part, Writing

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Creative, Poetic, Prose, Sensibilities, Swung

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

Challenges, Clear, Dynamism, Found, Prose, Writing
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