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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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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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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 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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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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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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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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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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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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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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