Roney-O’Brien’s ‘Bone Circle’

Back home in Princeton, where Roney-O’Brien writes each morning after returning from Oliver’s morning walk, she sits back down in her chair by the window and reflects on the poetry in “Bone Circle.” There is a smile on her face, but it is not for us, and she speaks to someone that may or may not be in the room.

“I got rid of alot,” she said calmly. “One of the things I’ve always said is that with poetry, you’ve taken an ugly experience out of your head and put it on a piece of paper. That paper looks like a frame. If you’re putting something in a frame it has to be perfect. It doesn’t have to be perfectly beautiful, it has to be perfect for what it is. The poems that come out, they may not be pleasant, but they are the best they can be. They tell the kind of truth that needs to be told.”
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