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" A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. "
Robert Morgan
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" 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. "
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" Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. "
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" The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. "
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" I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. "
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" 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. "
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" Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. "
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