Danielle Chapman interviewed in CT Magazine for her latest book “Holler”

She notes that sometimes our memories are so painful we hope to stop remembering them. (She certainly has a formative one). 

“But, as a poet,” she writes, “this often puts me in a bind. Because I believe in my memories, as if they were articles of faith; that they rivet me for a reason; that, if tested rigorously enough, they will yield some meaning bigger than themselves, and maybe even the truth.”