Robert Morgan

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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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.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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.
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.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
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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