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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.
Robert Morgan
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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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Hendersonville
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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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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
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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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
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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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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 values, some of the same techniques.
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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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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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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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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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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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