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Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

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I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

Data, Lyric, Sorts, Tend, Want, Writing
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The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.

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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

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Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

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I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

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All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.

Art, Character, Distinct, Lying, Wordless
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