” I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain. “
” It’s hard to describe one’s own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language, it’s hard to separate Southern language from black language. “
” I do think there’s a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that. “
” Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. “
” I’m not a historian. I know historians. I’ve worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets. “
” I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, ‘There’s two kinds of music – there’s good music, and then there’s the other kind. “
” People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don’t think it’s a blurry line at all. “
” I think the hardest thing, really, is trying not to write. “
” I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I’m going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. “
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