Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
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