“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
If you have that, you can sustain yourself through periods of great discouragement. And also, I couldn’t have the time to finish my projects to their highest level until I was lucky enough to meet my second husband, who is a union organizer, and has union health insurance—a ripple effect where I could get the best nephrologist and get on a wonder drug that reduced my chronic pain by 40%. I could afford to take time to go do residencies, have somebody to help raise my kid, a partner who sees me as an artist, because he’s also a poet, so he knows how essential it is for me to create. We’re really embarrassed with each other when projects are stalled, when somebody asks how the book’s going.
