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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.
- Layers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
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- Nov 07, 2020