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Protecting yourself in what way? Protecting yourself from strangers. I mean, I was a graduate student at Columbia. I was teaching at City College. I was an academic. It never occurred to me that I had to take my name out of the phone book and hide a little bit. And then came Fear of Flying and every crazy lunatic gets your number and has some proposition to make. They want to move in with you, they want you to save their lives, they want you as a lover. I mean, mostly they want salvation and they believe that...
...poetry, a significant amount of nonfiction, and yet you're so known by this one book. Is that frustrating? Of course it's frustrating. But one realizes it's also blessing to have a book that is so widely known - even if misinterpreted - and a book that makes your name. It's rare. You have to feel that it's a blessing and a curse because it is. Whoever promised us we'd be understood anyway...
...always wondered about your name, Joss. You don't meet a lot of Josses...
...thought that was - Billy? Bobby? What's his name...
...discern, and not just among the young. Simonton tells the story of a woman who was able to get fewer than a dozen of her poems published during her brief life. Her hard work availed her little - but the raw power of her imagery and metaphor lives on. Her name? Emily Dickinson...