- Disprove
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- Experiment
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The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
- Makes
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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
- Good
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Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
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Reading should be a repeat performance.
- Each Time
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You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
- Pull
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
- Far
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
- Poetry
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
- Past
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
- Hope
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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
- Each Year
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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
- Feelings
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The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
- Editor
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A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
- Magazine
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I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.
- Country
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I feel very connected to poets across the country.
- Community
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The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
- Poetry
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
- Long
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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
- Me
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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
- Great
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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
- Empathy
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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
- Ideal
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Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
- Experience
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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
- New
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