[Poem & Analysis] Adventures in Irreducible Units #1
2 min readMay 23, 2023
My partner, who is a non-native English speaker, suggested I try approaching my poems with more accessible language.
One of the (many) criticisms I received when I was working on my MFA in grad school was that the language I used was too difficult.
It was trying to do too many things and, as a result, became “impenetrable,” as one professor put it…