We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
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Because the title poem is about one man's response to being infected with HIV, I can understand why readers would focus the book around the pandemic.John Barton
Kids who are encountering that first difficulty with any kind of academic or life event have to re-imagine who they are. When the conclusion is that you're stupid, which is what most kids conclude, I think that has long-lasting, pervasive effects.
John Barton
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
John Barton
We work on extra points and field goals every day, every day. To have that let us down is very tough.
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