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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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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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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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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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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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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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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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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