about
the poetess.
April 18, 1989 -
Emily. Female. Twenty-one. From a city just outside D.C. in Maryland, United States. Has been writing (or something to that effect) since her fingers could hold a pen. Diagnosed first with Psychotic Depression, then with Schizotypal Personality Disorder, then with Disorganised Schizophrenia. These are not terribly fun times, but they make her perhaps more interesting than she would be otherwise. All the writers who were any good at what they did were insane anyway.
the words.
Based on truth, as most things are, in some incarnation at least. A good rule to go by is, if it sounds like she's writing about her life or something that could have happened therein, she is, and it's true.
An idea of how my poetic brain works.
the good.
William Blake. Carol Ann Duffy. Donald Hall ♥ Jane Kenyon. Ted Kooser. Dorianne Laux. Sharon Olds. Mary Oliver. Dorothy Parker. Linda Pastan. Sara Teasdale.
The incomparable William Shakespeare.
the bad.
Gwendolyn Brooks. E. E. Cummings. Allen Ginsberg. Walt Whitman.
the ugly.
Sylvia Plath. William Carlos Williams.