"Rosmarie Waldrop: The Nick of Time"
"I think this is a right spot on 'a poetry tries to be instantaneous.' It does this by leaps, by condensation, by not putting in all the steps as in an argument, in a continuous argument. Actually, Jacques Roubaud put that very nicely, he said, 'You can always go farther but not always step by step.' Poetry is the situation where you want to take leaps, you want to condense things."
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What Sparks Poetry:
John Robert Lee on Philip Larkin's "Church Going"
"I took, and still take, however subsumed, his neo-formal poetic forms, unfussy, concentrated, a modest musical tone playing on half rhymes and perhaps above all, the finely detailed and close, film-like observation of the world around him, physical, natural, and emotional. 'Church Going' was one of the poems I copied as I learned from him how to shape such pointed, accurate stanzas." |
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