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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 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 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 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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"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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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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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 write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them."
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"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
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"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
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