Andy Eaton is the author of Sprung Nocturne (Lifeboat, 2016). He is a Hoyns Fellow and MFA candidate at the University of Virginia. His poems appear in or are forthcoming from the Cortland Review, Image Journal, Ploughshares, and the Yale Review.
In his response to my first letter to him, Charles Wright said of my own decision to write poems, “I hope it gives you what it has given me—a life.” I took this wide view from such a hard gazer of a poet as both balm and call.