To me, writing is really me listening to my soul and me listening to that voice and responding to that. RK: I feel like one thing I've stayed true to, that's gotten me where I am today, is me being honest to myself. I'm sitting down with a team and going through the poems and thinking about new stuff for the tour and there's so many in there that I'm like, "Wow, this is really nice." It was so difficult and now, it's like walking out of a tornado. I feel like when I was writing that book, I was so hard on myself. TV: Do you have one or two favorite poems in The Sun and Her Flowers? I have the concept of what my book is going to be." Eventually, at the end of last year, I just stopped fighting that, and I was like, "I'm just going to write what comes."
I was writing about death and I was writing about immigration and I was like "No, no, no, I don't need to be writing about this stuff. When you experience violence for so long, when something comes to you and it's not violent, you don't know how to define that, you know?īut all these other themes kind of just wouldn't stop coming to me. I think we're like, "Oh, in unhealthy relationships, people are really sad, and then somebody great comes along and it's all like, butterflies and rainbows." But it doesn't really work like that. What I really wanted to focus on was that corrective experience that happens. Then the second chapter would be the light chapter, and it was going to talk about a healthy relationship and what that is like. The first chapter would be the darkness, and it would take readers through the experience of an unhealthy love and what that makes a person feel, and how that defines their lens and how they navigate the world. Three years ago, I thought the book was going to be a true chapter book. RK: The book was actually supposed to look a lot different. TV: Where did you find the inspiration for these poems, and for the five-segment format?
And then began the work of editing and refining, and editing and refining, and writing new work as well. I've been stalling for three years." So I went to my laptop and I printed all the work that I had done, and out came hundreds and hundreds of pages. I signed a two-book deal and that's when I was like, "OK, I need to really actually finish this thing. I did take about a year break when things got really busy and life was changing and I didn't know how to manage it all, but I was constantly journaling and then writing again for the last year. I don't really write books I think books tend to be the end product of what I'm doing throughout my day-to-day.
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