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Joan Larkin Biography

Joan Larkin (born in 1939) is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now[when?] in her fourth decade of teaching writing. The science fiction writer Donald Moffitt is her brother.

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It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

Clear, Learning, Long, Process, Vision

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

Come, Different, Roots, Sound, Spanish

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

Hear, Rhythms, Sound, Translate, Trying, Want

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

Back, Capable, Cutting, Expanding

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

Book, Books, Facets, Love, Pieces, Poems

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

Community, Given, Grateful, Poetry, Teaching

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

Blessing, Evil, Ideas, Internet, Publishing, Stay

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

Community, Imaginative, Living, Part, Poet

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

Branches, Deep, Make, Poetry, Roots, Tree

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

Compelled, Creative, Everything, Moving, Teaching, Writing

People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

Giving, People, Supposed, Taken, Toys

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

Book, Books, External, Movement, Putting, Years

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

Admire, Impossible, Jobs, People, Think, Thinking