Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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

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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

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