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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