Unveiling Tomorrow: Kelly Grace Thomas Reveals Shocking Secrets Behind Future Tense
RR: Form shifts throughout the collection. There are erasures, crossed-out lines, unusual spacing, poems justified to the right, and others. How do you know when a poem is asking for a particular form? Were there instances where the form helped you discover something you couldn’t have arrived at through language alone?
KT: This is such a great question. Form is usually the last thing I think about. I begin with language, and once I feel like the emotional truth is intact, I ask: Have I said everything this poem needs to say? That’s when I start thinking about form.
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