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- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020