My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
A picture is a poem without words.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.