“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
