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We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they…
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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me…
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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest…
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is…
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the…
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the…
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,…
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive…
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some…
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