“And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.”
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
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.
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
