Maybe The Example Of Southern

In The Later Books I Am Much More At Home In The Use Of Language To Describe Things. I Had Never Thought Of That Until A Critic Pointed That Out.

Some People Swear By Writing Courses, But Whether It Really Helps American Poetry, I Have Doubts.

Pound's Translation Of Chinese Poetry Was Maybe The Most Important Thing I Read. Eliot A Little Bit Later.

Our Most Famous Writers Are Faulkner And Eudora Welty And Flannery O'connor. It Would Make Sense That The Poetry Would Reflect Some Of Those Same Values, Some Of The Same Techniques.

I Learned To Impersonate The Kind Of Person That Talks About Poetry. It Comes From Teaching, I Think.