Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
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