Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.Mark Strand
In a field I am the absence of field. That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
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The future is always beginning now.
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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