"Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does."

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Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the self of its masks in order to analyze how those masks are made - by what means, by whom, for what ostensible purpose - those poems risk offering us refuge.

— James Allen Hall