People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial privilege and of class privilege. I don't think it's always a blind expression of these privileges but it does have its genesis in them, in the politics of them.
Shane McCraeI think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.
Shane McCraeI learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.
Shane McCraeI wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.
Shane McCrae