A friend was complaining to me about how much he hates AWP. It's like Diet Pepsi, he said. I'm addicted, but it's bad for me. I keep drinking it, but I hate it. He says he doesn't sell books or connect or enjoy the panels . . . He says that when it was smaller, he did all those things. He doesn't like the feeling it gives him about poetry in America either. His comments made me think of this comic.
The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence
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What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most
clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and
great vulnera...
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