The Poetics of Wrongness Quotes

“To be against the confessional is to be against writing about women and women’s bodies, people of color and the bodies of people of color, queerness, trans bodies, differently abled bodies, individuality, oppression, perversity, diversity, class, the domestic, the non-normative, the personal, the political, the specific, the urgent, the spiritual, the banal, the direct, the relational, the screamed, the whispered. To be against the confessional is to be against coming out, against emphatically bringing the unwanted and repressed and hated and oppressed into the public view, into the poem. “Poetry,” wrote Audre Lorde, “is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
― Rachel Zucker, The Poetics of Wrongness