Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
			
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				Type: Novelist Born: September 30, 1969  | 
				
				I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.			
				
			With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.			 
			

