I really am super nervous and abject about the possibility that I’m really fucking boneheaded and shitty about male privilege in my poems, and that when I try to “trouble it” or whatever I’m really just making an ass out of myself and making a public nuisance. How can I efface what’s phallogocentric in my writing? How can I “get rid of” my “shitty work” “forever.” How can I “get put down” by “big poem firing squad.”
Well, for whatever it’s worth, I’ve read around enough in your work to feel qualified to say “you are not