Cornelia’s Reviews > Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life > Status Update

"The poet as a lamplighter, kindling flames down an endless street."

"We wrote often, sometimes several times a day. Flurries. You called it a buoyant fugue state. [...] to go on writing, to your friends, to write intensively to your friends, pouring everything there, the thoughs, the quotations, the cries. It was a way to stay alive as a writer."