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John Barton

"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."

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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
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"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
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