For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.