Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.
That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
I don't shape trends, I'd say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on 'them.' I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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.
