One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
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Saeed Jones on Queer Masculinity and the Point of Being an Artist
By Nawal Arjini — 2019
We talked to the writer about his debut memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and his move from poetry to prose.
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