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 poems to my "crappy poems" file.
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
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'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 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…
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…
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. - Anna Journey
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.
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.
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…
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