Daphne Gottlieb
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Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb is a lesbian San Francisco-based performance poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
Daphne Gottlieb quotes about
conscious entranced interested people
I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
alphabet conviction less lower matters poetry saves stakes tiny
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
beautiful girlfriend kissing
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.
writing needs building
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
writing make-sense
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.
writing love-poems should
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself
beer boys love-is
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.