#on poetry

HS: I think that idea of writing with a muse is about absorbing the complexity of their being. You’ve talked about Keats.

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INTERVIEWER What did you mean when you said that a poem should act like an empty suitcase? KAY RYAN It’s a clown suitcase:...

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Nor do the poems [of Jane Kenyon] ever culminate in that tiresome ‘Now I see’ of transfigured experience. If the dog and

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Oh, I love music. I think that, together with syntax, music is the DNA of the poem. Poems come to me in various forms,

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But I think of them when people tell me I write “too beautifully.” You can’t really choose your style, or your music, or

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Poetry makes language care because it renders everything intimate. This intimacy is the result of the poem’s labor, the

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