[para. 1]: ""Every life is the story of a collapse," writes Tom Clark in his book of poems, Like Real People, quoting the writer E.M. Cioran. Clark then expands on this statement, insisting that the poet contains diverse lives, retrieving the "deepest and purest voices of the human collective's several selves."
"What else," he continues, "are the figures of poetry but the extrapolations of all the continually collapsing lives that quarrel within us?""