The Black Art

"If I write RATS and discover that rats reads STAR backwards, and amazingly STAR is wonderful and good because I found it in rats, then is star untrue? Of course I know that words are just a counting game, I know this until the words start to arrange themselves and write something better than I would ever know." - Anne Sexton

This video is absolutely amazing. Nikky Finney is the winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry—nobody thought she’d win. Her acceptance speech starts at 3:30 and is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.

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