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FEBRUARY 20

Dearest Max,

I’m so glad your reading went well.

Oh, and on the school of poets who surround you, I say: resist opacity. I think at the heart of opacity is fear. I think ultimately it was a similar experience I had when I was your age that made me wander away from poetry; that is to say, the poetry that was privileged at college was opaque and academic and my transparency was hugely embarrassing.

I’m going to save your poem for my Amtrak ride to New Haven today. And I’ll send you another poem soon. But for today, a song!

I hope you don’t have to go through the labor of a stem cell transplant. I want everything good for you. Love, health, poetry.

Okay, Dora is almost over on the television, I must go attend to the twins.

xo,

Sarah