Ava Trilling

I’m not really sure what being a writer is exactly. At least for me, I mean. I’ve always just kind of written. I guess you can say I have some narcissistic qualities, one of them being I am interested in pretty much anything that has to do with me and everything that goes on inside of my head.

DOES ADMITTING YOU’RE A NARCISSIST MAKE YOU LESS OF ONE? in it’s entirety is queer; it’s fluid and mobile, and though a closed and written text, can change in meaning depending on the reader and where the reader lies in their emotional state, or life in general.

What is most present in this work is my obsession with the corporeal. The claustrophobia of being in one’s body. My poetry is physical whether it be about sex, being seen, being loved, being held, being intoxicated, or being stone-cold sober. I wish I could say this was intentional, that this was a well thought through and purposeful decision. It wasn’t. In fact, I realized this while selecting the order for, and revising, all of my poems for this manuscript.

There is no concrete structure, no assumed reaction; it is simply a collection of words and ideas at their most stripped down and vulnerable core, put together in hopes of finding an eager, similar reader- who resonates with, and feels heard by my work.