Lawless (above left) and Wong's (above right) poem is the first collaboration to be included in a volume of the Best American Poetry. Here is their contributors' note.
Of "It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted by a Narcissist," Lawless writes: "We are human beings figuring out how human beings are human beings. How we are vulnerable, lonely, humiliated, desired, how we hurt and act [cont. Angela Veronica Wong]. . .
[cont. from Amy Lawless] out, how we want. The poem emerges from individual experiences in large cities and the ways we tether to each other, small i's to small you's."
How do they read this poem aloud? Find out at the Best American Poetry 2013 launch reading, Thursday, September 19, 7:00 pm, The New School, 66 W. 12th Street, NYC. More information here.
-- sdh
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