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From: Chris Roach
Date: 10/4/01
Time: 10:00:49 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.204.208
Jim,
As the others have shared, your talent is outstanding and your ability to touch our feelings through your words is so liberating to the reader, particularly one who stutters.
I was wondering about your own personal experience with stuttering. After you've created a poem and shed a part of yourself in your words, do you feel or sense an immediate impact on your stuttering afterwards? Can you sense a difference in either your physical stuttering and the normal anxieties or fears, as a result of your self-expression? I can only imagine that your gift enables you, as the writer, to find a healthy ventilation of the frustrations as a stutterer. I know, in reading your work, it helps me.
Thanks for sharing your talent. It makes a difference to many people.
Chris