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And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.
Edward Hirsch
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Edward Hirsch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 20
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The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.
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But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
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When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
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A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.
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Gertrude Stein said, I write for myself and strangers. I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
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The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.
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A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.
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think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.
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The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.
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So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.
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I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
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There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.
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And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.
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That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be some kind of marker, something setting out a space, creating a space for what's going to come.
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The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.
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I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.
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I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
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There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
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