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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.
Robert Morgan
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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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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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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 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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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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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