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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

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I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

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I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

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In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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