After the Fall was written mainly as a joke. It wasn't a personal love poem at all, I was just feeling fed up with housekeeping and children.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.Anne Stevenson
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
Anne Stevenson
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Anne Stevenson
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Anne Stevenson
He's great, and I frequently book conferences and meetings at the hotel just because of him, ... Many times, Luke is in the lobby greeting groups he has a little doghouse there. He's a great addition and definitely a draw.
Anne Stevenson
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