Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where, why of the poem), I can get to my main interest, which is the language, and where it wants to take me. If I can establish the poem's occasion in the title, then so much the better for my freedom to associate.
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical. - Anna Journey
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
- Anna Journey
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where… - Anna Journey
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where…
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm… - Anna Journey
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm…
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel l… - Anna Journey
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel l…
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. - Anna Journey
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I li… - Anna Journey
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I li…
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish p… - Anna Journey
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish p…
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though. - Anna Journey
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if… - Anna Journey
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if…
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