“What sound does that color make?” Yeah, that was a question of hers in fifth grade. And I was like, “Well, colors don’t have sound.” And eventually, she said, “You know red sounds different than blue.” And I, “Yeah, red sounds angry, blue sounds —” And so she was pushing me into, “Here’s your simile, here’s your metaphor. This is all you’re going to need. Run, my child.”
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Patricia Smith
Poet; Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York
United States · b. 1955
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Memory, music, and paying attention. Patricia Smith and Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation at the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival.
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