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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.
Robert Morgan
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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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Hendersonville
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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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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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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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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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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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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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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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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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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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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 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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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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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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