I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.
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I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
I read mostly poetry.
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
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