I regret that I never got to know you further; Lord knows I had ample opportunity. During part of my term at WPI, I was a different person, uncertain in my manners, clinging to and encouraging frequently self-abusive relationships with people who no doubt carry a not entirely favorable impression of me in their minds even today. Out of these circumstances came some (I think) remarkable poetry, but I'd always destroy what I wrote. I wish I hadn't. It's amazing how such a collection can, perhaps, tell a more compelling and more moving story than an autobiography.
On comprehensive reading of your body of work (including the most recent one), I find it mildly disturbing the number of times I reflect on these poems only to see myself staring back at me, even in the ones that clearly predated my existence in your world.
Hello, old friend
anonymous
November 5 2004, 00:39:34 UTC
Kate, I commend you for your courage. You have written poems that are tremendously deep and meaningful, and have shared them with us, allowed us to look and recognize ourselves in you. I really think anyone reading this work will feel as though it came straight out of his or her heart. I know I do. Thank you for allowing me to be wrapped up in your words. I have known you for a long time, yet you always surprise me with new talents.
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I regret that I never got to know you further; Lord knows I had ample opportunity. During part of my term at WPI, I was a different person, uncertain in my manners, clinging to and encouraging frequently self-abusive relationships with people who no doubt carry a not entirely favorable impression of me in their minds even today. Out of these circumstances came some (I think) remarkable poetry, but I'd always destroy what I wrote. I wish I hadn't. It's amazing how such a collection can, perhaps, tell a more compelling and more moving story than an autobiography.
Keep writing, Kate.
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