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Author augusten burroughs6/20/2023 In Running with Scissors, Burroughs writes that he was "just a kid" when his mother sent him away to live with the psychiatrist. But Augusten Burroughs and Chris are not quite the same." When Chris called me and asked me to come. "I know a little bit about Augusten Burroughs. Augusten Burroughs is a fiction to me," says Robison. He was 18 when he started calling himself Augusten Burroughs. Robison calls her son Chris, the name she gave him at birth. In it, Robison is described as so cold and self-absorbed that she gives away her young son to her psychiatrist. There have been few mothers as monstrous as the one in his memoir Running with Scissors. But the words of her son, memoirist Augusten Burroughs, cast her in a harsh light. In her poems, she's described her stroke and recovery from it and the time she spent in a psychiatric institution. She's a poet who uses words to describe her world and to make sense of her life. Or I notice an apple beginning to turn red. "When I write on the porch, I never know what's going to attract my attention," she says. From her porch she looks out at the river, pockmarked by rain, and across the water to big green hills covered in clouds. Robison lives in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, in Shelburne Falls, Mass. The covered balcony hangs in the trees, like a diving board over the Deerfield River. It's her favorite place for writing poetry. On a rainy day, Margaret Robison sits in her wheelchair on the tiny porch behind her house.
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