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- 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020