American - Poet | 1944 -
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Robert Morgan
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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
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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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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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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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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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