We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
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I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
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It makes you feel like you are accomplishing something. But you really can't take it for granted. You have to keep going. It doesn't mean anything to be No. 1 in the middle of the season.
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