Occupation: Poet Birth: June 20, 1951
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language..
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent..
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see..
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being wo….
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year..
The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in h….