I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.
Fred D'AguiarTo have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.
Fred D'AguiarI found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'Aguiar