Daisy Fried
Poet
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Sample Poems
from My Destination: Bop Bag
Fasces
The Girl Grew and Grew, Her Mother Couldn't Stop It
from The Year the City Emptied Owls
The Goose (and Don Yorty on this poem and Baudelaire's original, "Le Cygne"
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from Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice Econo Motel, Ocean City
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from My Brother is Getting Arrested Again My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie, and the Negro Painter
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from She Didn't Mean to Do It She Didn't Mean to Do It
Sample Prose About Poetry​: Reviews, Essays, Interviews, Craft Thoughts, Collaborations, Amusements​​
On Henri Cole's Gravity and Center
On Joshua Weiner's Nelly Sachs
On Adam Zagajewski's Slight Exaggeration
More Even Than Itself: on C.K. Williams' Invisible Mending
Silent Forests of the Heart: on Niina Pollari and the astonishments of grief.
Sing, God-Awful Muse: On Milton and the Nipple Nazi of Northampton
On Ross Gay's "A Small Needful Fact"
Why Does the Poem Work?: Rachel Loden's "What the Gravedigger Needs"
On Tony Hoagland's "The Change"
Mob Rules: On Charles Dickens and the tones of writing mobs.
On (In)sincerity and Philip Larkin's "Water" (with A.E. Stallings)
Possible and Impossible Truths About Reviewing
Does Poetry Have a Social Function? (with Stephanie Burt, Major Jackson, and Emily Warn)
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Interviews with Daisy Fried
​At Zocalo Public Square
At Plume
At Divedapper
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