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John Barton

"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."

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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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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
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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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"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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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
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"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
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"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
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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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