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- Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
- I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
- Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of…
- Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place…
- I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about…
- One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to…
- Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form,…
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