"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."

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"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."

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"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."

Poetry,

"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

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

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"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."

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"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."

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"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."

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"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."

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