American - Poet | 1944 -
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
Robert Morgan
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I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
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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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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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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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