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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
Biographer
Novelist
Poet
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Intimacy
Places
Characters
Events
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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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.
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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
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We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above.
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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 timeless, that it reaches back.
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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.
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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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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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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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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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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 love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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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 encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
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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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