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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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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.
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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
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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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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