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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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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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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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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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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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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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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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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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"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
Being
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
Poetry
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."
Poetry
"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
Now
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
Poems
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
Creativity
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
Needs
"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
Poet
"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."
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