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• The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.

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  School, Yearbook, Thinking

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• I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

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  Reading, Reality, Ideas

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• No quería escribir exclusivamente para (o contra) poetas o eruditos, ¡aunque muchos de ellos también son personas! Pero ese no era mi público principal. Era esa persona que te cae bien y te dice que no entiende la poesía, y tú piensas: ay, tío, ¿qué puedo hacer por esta buena persona?

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  Escribir, Hombres, Pensar

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• I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc., that require a deeper concentration than is usually demanded of us. So that, right off the bat, is a little difficult. Then there is the deeper issue of what poetry is really asking of us. I feel it is asking us to read with great, even sacred, care and attention. That, too, is difficult. It requires discipline and the creation of a temporary zone of privacy, which is inimical to our current conditions of life.

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  Thinking, Discipline, Attention

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• Algo puede ser simbólico sin ser un mero sustituto o recipiente, que sólo nos aleja del verdadero misterio y pavor, hacia una versión aburrida de lo que ya conocemos. Así que lo que dices es cierto, en el sentido de que el oso es una especie de paralelo del orador, o se imagina como tal, pero también es muy diferente. Así que si es un símbolo, es -ejem- un símbolo polisémico.

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  Diferentes, Osos, Amables

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• Así que, por alguna razón, esas breves líneas me parecieron adecuadas, en mi yo físico. Eran adecuados para el movimiento de los poemas. Algunos poemas del libro tienen versos más largos.

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  Libro, Yo, Movimiento

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• Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

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  Unexpected, Granted, Scientist

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• That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.

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  Mistake, Mean, Focus

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• Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but it certainly has felt that way before. Like all of us, I am vibrating with electric uncertainty. How do you manage to concentrate and write poems? I know that for me it is just a relief to be in that sort of thinking, away from the news and all the immense global and personal worries.

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  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.

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  Believe, Survival, I Believe

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• I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction out of a reader, or an audience, that is something closer to relief: i.e., thank god this isn't poetry, but stand-up comedy. Some poets are really funny, but more often poets are fourth rate stand up comics at best. But they benefit from the sheer relief of the audience.

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  Thinking, Thank God, Benefits

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• Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really just see those titles as ways of more or less orienting the poem. I've never thought about this until now, but I guess you could say that one effect of all the titles, their pervasiveness in the book, might be to once again, as so many other things do, put into question the meaning of the word "for," which I suppose is one of the great human questions: what is all this for? Why, and for whom, are we doing whatever we are doing?

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  Book, Thinking, Way

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• Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

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  Real, Medio, Pensamiento

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• The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But that's how writing poetry has felt to me my whole life. Everything seems to have just gotten immensely more mortal and tragic and scary, which makes it hard to concentrate, but also, if harnessed, can provide immense energy for making poems.

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  Writing, Scary, Energy

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• Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel.

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  Song, Brother, Musical

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• Es curioso, y también un poco triste, que a los poetas se nos pida tan a menudo que justifiquemos nuestra vocación. Parece haber algo vagamente desconcertante e incluso hilarante para la gente sobre ser poeta, especialmente en estos tiempos. ¿Por qué alguien elegiría hacer algo tan... inútil?

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  Gente, Poeta, Vocación

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• [My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

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  Thinking, Quality, Ordinary

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• I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

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  Comfort, Advantage, Feels

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• Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they're fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.

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  Zoos, Animal, Names

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• My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more different "types" of poetry I grow to love. I might not even believe anymore that there are "types" of poetry at all. I've come to love things I once would snootily have dismissed. Of course I still have my likes and dislikes, and there are things I think are just plain old bullshit, but more and more I am far more trusting of my loves than my dislikes.

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  Believe, Thinking, Bullshit

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• I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and expresses it is shutting people down. It's funny to see that expressed, and then to go back and read poetic statements by the great poets of the past: they are full of a passionate conviction! It is clearly possible to express strong feelings about poetry while also defending the absolute right of myriad approaches.

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  Strong, Past, People

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• I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.

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  Song, Thinking, Listening

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• That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the best example of someone who is systematically misread because he can be hilarious. In his poems, as in all great funny poems, the humor is one very appealing version of the surprise and associative movement that is at the heart of all poetry.

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  Heart, Movement, Might

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• I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

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  Fun, Games, Drug

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• I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by any person. I didn't know if this was possible, but I suddenly knew, in that few-times-in-a-lifetime sort of way, that this would be my life's search.

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  Writing, Trying

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