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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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Hendersonville
North Carolina
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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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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 doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
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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 talking.
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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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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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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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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 passes, or a lifetime.
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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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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 poetry.
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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.
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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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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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 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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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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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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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.
Robert Morgan