WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.590 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.590 --> 00:00:10.040 align:middle line:84% This book was the first book I was really terrified of. 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:12.530 align:middle line:84% It came in the mail and I thought, 00:00:12.530 --> 00:00:20.660 align:middle line:84% oh no, I just wrote down all my secrets and put them in a book. 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:23.040 align:middle line:84% And then I thought, it's OK, it's poetry. 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:24.120 align:middle line:90% No one will ever read it. 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:30.740 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.740 --> 00:00:34.100 align:middle line:84% And then two days later, it was nominated for the National Book 00:00:34.100 --> 00:00:40.585 align:middle line:84% Award, and I had to get extra terrified. 00:00:40.585 --> 00:00:42.085 align:middle line:84% I'll read a few more from this book. 00:00:42.085 --> 00:00:48.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:50.840 align:middle line:84% It's funny, this book can make me 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:55.160 align:middle line:84% cry, which is an interesting thing, because you don't 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:00.725 align:middle line:84% want to be up here being like, oh, I'm sobbing in my own poems. 00:01:00.725 --> 00:01:02.340 align:middle line:90% The hubris of that. 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:04.713 align:middle line:90% Like, so moving. 00:01:04.713 --> 00:01:09.050 align:middle line:90% 00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:11.770 align:middle line:90% So I have to avoid that. 00:01:11.770 --> 00:01:15.000 align:middle line:90%