If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.Thomas Lynch
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
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Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
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In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet. It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
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