Ruin & Want interview excerpt, pt. 1

In the next few days I’ll be sharing excerpts from an interview I did with Sundress Publications. Izzy Astuto asked me some insightful questions. Hope my answers make sense, haha.

I am placing the visual slides I created below as well as the text of the interview excerpt below that.

And please pre-order my new book, it would mean a great deal to me–you can do so on the Sundress Publications site!

INTERVIEW EXCERPT

Izzy Astuto: How did you decide to first introduce L through the eyes of the narrator’s at the time girlfriend?

José: This decision came via feedback from poet and dear friend Rivka Clifton who noted that the project needed an entry point into what was at stake. Seeing it now that the project is completed, it was a great suggestion. I see it as a moment of crisis similar to the sense of crisis in the rest of the project, a moment where different roles and kinds of masking I performed in my relationships clashed. In this moment of friction, all I had was questions I couldn’t take the time to answer because of the damage control I had to play, with my at the time girlfriend, with the image I had of myself that I fought to maintain.

More tomorrow!

José