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I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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... →
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of... →
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate... →
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.
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
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... →
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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