I think that’s helpful.”Īfterglow is also a little bit not what it is supposed to be it has amused Myles to watch as it is rounded up alongside conventional dog books.
I think more people for more reasons should take on ‘they’.” For the poet’s own part, avoiding he/she is a gesture towards “the feeling that one is a little bit not what they’re supposed to be. Using the pronoun “they”, although “it sounds a little funny”, is worth having a stab at, says Myles, because it confirms the poet’s view that men and women aren’t monoliths. It is the writer’s preference to be referred to in the third person plural, “because I think it holds masculine and feminine and everything in between”. We are in the East Village, New York, where Myles has lived for the last four decades, in a rent controlled apartment that doesn’t cost much more than it did in the 70s.
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