At the Oklahoman, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses her collection of poetry, The Age of Phillis, which imagines the life of poet Phillis Wheatley, honoring her rich legacy and painting a picture of a vivid inner life. “Poetry can be real because you can imagine something,” Jeffers says,”but it’s based on reality…Nearly every woman that gives birth to a child loves that child. You don’t have to make that up, right? That’s the way it is; that’s the human story.”
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