“Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.”
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
