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Manuel Gonzales

Bigfoot Catches a Show

Manuel Gonzales
Bigfoot Catches a Show

I first met Lucy Harrison at an artist residency fifteen years ago, when I still fashioned myself a poet, and, suffering from a newly broken heart, spent most of my month there memorizing the saddest poems I could bring myself to find in the residency’s extensive collection of very sad poems. Ultimately, this had the effect of convincing me I would never be quite a great poet, and by the time I left behind the New England mansion, I had also left behind poetry, or writing it, anyway. Lucy … [Read more...] about Bigfoot Catches a Show

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