“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
