With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
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