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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... →
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A... →
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... →
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of... →
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being... →
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down... →
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... →
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... →
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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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