Quotes from Sharon Doubiago

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I know my own story is understanding our singleness that I am destined to move my body and time into the body-time the story of Others.

The local paper is called the World.

When I was a girl the books I read were by men

the love of beauty above the human is fascism

She is the one who hides her name in every arroyo and chaparral wash, like the Egyptian sungod that bears her name, Amon-Ra .

I saw the sky move inside you as it comes sometimes inside me, blowing time around like a cloud

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.' How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.