I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
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