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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 dead end.
- Narrative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
- Fiction Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 to start.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 it. A writer has to draw blood.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.
- Mature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
- Free Verse
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020