Five Women Poets on Writing the Body by Emily Sernaker
Rachel Eliza speaks about this poem: ““Another Age” is an anthem, a praise-song to our imperfect selves. I wanted to put the sad things inside of me on notice. Announcing my wounds instead of denying, hiding, or waiting for someone else to save me, felt possible because I had gone through such a difficult journey of grief after my mother’s death. Embracing things that had hurt me in the past, and would affect the wellbeing of any possible future, was an important sequence of insistence that my life, no matter how flawed, matters.”
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