If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.John Barton
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
John Barton
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
John Barton
I feel very connected to poets across the country.
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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
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