The reason Dorothy Allison planted her foot in your soul was because she was a poet, first. Her poetic mastery is what made every novel and essay sing.
This morning I re-read letters she and I exchanged back in the 1980s. —Long before anyone knew our writing outside of a few kindred souls. We were in a period of feminist fracturing, the “sex wars,” as th…
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