AN INTERVIEW WITH CHASE BERGGRUN, AUTHOR OF R E D, ON THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF ERASURE AND THE LONG POEM "The long poem has historically as we know been a form that men have dominated. And the way that the long poem takes up space is so interesting and fascinating to me as a gendered space, too. I’ve talked with Paige Lewis about this a little bit—it never ceases to amaze me, how radical the act of asking someone to sit with you for a long time unfortunately is if you are not a cis man."
"Rilke’s unpublished missive to a distant beloved became an archetype for much of my sense of the poetic: an epistle (in)to the unknown fueled by a compassion that comprehends radical otherness as an aspect of the self exceeding the self."
![J. Michael Martinez's hand-written version of Rilke's "[You who have never arrived]"](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4d91040f019a225461e1f6c57/images/2ee2e312-b6b8-42a5-a4e8-028a80595f0d.jpg)
