Would you talk more about what the form of the poem does for the questions that the speaker poses throughout the poem? The bifurcation formally separates the two fantasies. A side note ...

I thought that it was important to include poems in the book that deal with important subjects and answer questions about life and death and because kids are thinking about those things.

What does it mean to exist in time or make art for the moment? In XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath explores this question with a poem for every year between 1900 and 2000.

I had the chance to ask the author about the kindling and spark that fed this comic poem. _“Determination” begins with and loops back to that infamously slippery “first word” of the blank ...