Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of 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.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.