Hirshfield's final and probably most impactful chapter really drove home the idea poetry should push boundaries and capture all the joyful and painful life aspects we experience every day. Everyone's interpretations of this chapter that I've read, Bijan, Matt, and Emma, and all the others who contributed put her words into perspective and cemented this notion that as writers we must be "stepping past what we already think we know and into an entirely new relationship with many possibilities," (Hirshfield 224). We have to be free and step out of the personal boundaries and inhabit our liminal space in writing to fully express and immerse ourselves and readers. Seeing both sides of the liminal space, being in the threshold, I think is how poetry should take form, and what I learned from Hirshfield's final chapter.
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Teresa, I love your interpretation of this chapter. In order to write poetry we need to step away from ourselves. In doing so we should not just become something else, we should become all things, the good things and the bad things. In order to understand this world we need to see everything as it exists together, to understand how the good correlates with the bad.