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John C. Hawkes

"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

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"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."

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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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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."

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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

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