“How should I live my life?” the Pulitzer-winning poet Marie Howe asks in one of her better-known poems. In the final lines of this spring issue, Howe is invoked by Manuel Gonzales, via another poem, in a kind of literary call to arms: an uprising against writer’s block, but more broadly a proclamation that language—artistic expression—can change and renew a life in a way that ultimately defines it as human and worth something. [ . . . ]
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