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Even though we’ve written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don’t think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything Picture Quote #1

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can’t imagine living without it Picture Quote #1

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home Picture Quote #1

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten Picture Quote #1

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking Picture Quote #1

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines Picture Quote #1

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I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time Picture Quote #1

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too Picture Quote #1

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool Picture Quote #1

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters Picture Quote #1

I don’t see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I’ve often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don’t see that much difference between art and poetry Picture Quote #1

I’m all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality Picture Quote #1

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Poems can’t help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life Picture Quote #1

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense Picture Quote #1

I write a book of poems and then the characters won’t go away so I write a play from that Picture Quote #1

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems Picture Quote #1

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss Picture Quote #1

It is the unspecified ‘you’ of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship Picture Quote #1

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These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich Picture Quote #1

Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them Picture Quote #1

Korea’s first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago Picture Quote #1

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems Picture Quote #1

In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who’s seen a bit of the world can’t help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence Picture Quote #1

At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can’t revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that’s run through my work from the start Picture Quote #1

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Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria Picture Quote #1

I’ve always felt that the poems I’ve written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let’s write about that. In every case what has happened is that I’ve become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn’t shake it Picture Quote #1

Poems are not easy to start, and they’re not easy to finish. There’s a great pleasure in - I wouldn’t say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started Picture Quote #1

I’m a happy camper when I’m doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I’ve written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me Picture Quote #1

I’m partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender Picture Quote #1

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life Picture Quote #1

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Even though we’ve written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don’t think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything (Poems Quotes) Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can’t imagine living without it (Poems Quotes) I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home (Poems Quotes) Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten (Poems Quotes) I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking (Poems Quotes) So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines (Poems Quotes) I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time (Poems Quotes) Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too (Poems Quotes) If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool (Poems Quotes) What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters (Poems Quotes) I don’t see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I’ve often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don’t see that much difference between art and poetry (Poems Quotes) I’m all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality (Poems Quotes) Poems can’t help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life (Poems Quotes) I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense (Poems Quotes) I write a book of poems and then the characters won’t go away so I write a play from that (Poems Quotes) I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems (Poems Quotes) My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss (Poems Quotes) It is the unspecified ‘you’ of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship (Poems Quotes) These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich (Poems Quotes) Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them (Poems Quotes) Korea’s first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago (Poems Quotes) I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems (Poems Quotes) In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who’s seen a bit of the world can’t help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence (Poems Quotes) At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can’t revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that’s run through my work from the start (Poems Quotes) Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria (Poems Quotes) I’ve always felt that the poems I’ve written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let’s write about that. In every case what has happened is that I’ve become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn’t shake it (Poems Quotes) Poems are not easy to start, and they’re not easy to finish. There’s a great pleasure in - I wouldn’t say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started (Poems Quotes) I’m a happy camper when I’m doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I’ve written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me. (Poems Quotes) I’m partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. (Poems Quotes) Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life (Poems Quotes)

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