Eric gansworth's excellent Memoir in poetry form , Apple : skin to the Core comes out today. Continues his current trajectory of really rich nuance complex and very funny work that is young adult friendly. It's being marketed as young adult but it is all ages in the best sense. Everyone can find wonderful honesty and self-awareness, I love of community and the tension that comes from wrestling against it sometimes I took exactly one creative writing class from professor gansworth 14 or 15 years ago. He's exactly what you want in a teacher. He's going to give you his honest assessment without cruelty for the faults and without embellished praised for its good qualities. At some point I realized that creative writing wasn't my thing, but I still think about that class all the time how exciting and difficult it was and the things I learned not to do - and the permission I gave myself to still keep doing some of them because at the end of the day I'm the author of what I write. I did terribly in the class but I will always cherish I'm a fan of Eric as a teacher, visual artist, prose writing poetry radar and in whatever medium he decides to tackle next. I don't think you would make a distinction between any of those endeavors, and neither do I. It always gives me great joy to engage with his next work and to see the influence he continually has on students across the generations I was at before how much I miss live shows. Is tremendously common for me to see exchange I smile and Nod with Eric in the line right before everyone else let in. We either have equally excellent or equally awful taste. I'm only a few poems into this Epoch of his literary life, but Apple it's my full-throated recommendation. He reads the audiobook himself, which is an extra Delight If you're looking for poetry, if you're also looking for poetry oh, really good poetry to give a young audience to show them what poetry can do, give them this. It's a fantastic exploration of identity and the various contacts that makes that thrilling finding insufficient and the only thing that matters. Read this book #ericgansworth #poetry #appleskintothecore #itsreallyfuckinggoooooood #onondaganation (at West Seneca, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBknHVBNTh/?igshid=pfuhkr4p5wi1
