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"The more I think about it, the more oppressed I feel--so many of us writing books of poetry, with or without arc. How in the world can I feel really, really special? No, I think poets should take the lesson of the great aromatic eucalyptus tree and poison the soil beneath us."

— Mar 26, 2023 04:11PM

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Punk is on page 264 of 302

"To my mind, poets should discourage the practice of poetry, by example."

— Apr 11, 2023 02:44PM

Punk is on page 229 of 302

"A poem really has no beginning and end, although it does appear to. All the parts of a poem exist as a sort of plasma, simultaneously apprehended, existing in the mind all at once, as soon as we have become familiar with them."

— Apr 09, 2023 03:34PM

Punk is on page 217 of 302

Might have to read some Annie Dillard now. Recs?

— Apr 08, 2023 02:57PM

Punk is on page 167 of 302

Bounced hard off the two Marianne Moore essays, though I can see her influence on Ryan's own poetry.

— Apr 05, 2023 09:13PM

Punk is on page 157 of 302

"A virtue of poetry is that a little goes a long way, and Marianne Moore's poetry is especially virtuous."

— Apr 04, 2023 10:34PM

Punk is on page 142 of 302

"There must be a crack in the poet of some sort. It has to be deep, privately potent, and unmendable--and the poet must forever try to mend it."

— Apr 04, 2023 09:58PM

Punk is on page 112 of 302

"Though a person may be absolutely destined to be a poet, the person doesn't altogether understand this at first. For a long time the person just feels silly."

— Mar 30, 2023 09:33PM

Punk is on page 102 of 302

"Like the photographs kept from childhood, our journals do not save but wipe away, or overlay, memory."

— Mar 28, 2023 10:48PM

Punk is on page 87 of 302

"[Emily] Dickinson terrain is hard on the brain suspension."

— Mar 27, 2023 09:35PM

Punk is on page 74 of 302

"While writing a poem the hot wire of thought welds together strange chunks of this and that."

— Mar 27, 2023 06:04PM