"The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write."

Writing, First, Loss, Old, Years

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"The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write."

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"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."

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