This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which … - Rae Armantrout

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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Rae Armantrout

This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, 'visible fissile ribbons. ' It's as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful.

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Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

Mean, Poetry, Things, Units, Want

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

Dream, Hold, Poem, Your Dreams

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

Bed, Curled, Way, Young

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud to myself as I'm composing them. And I enjoy reading to an audience. I think people get tone more easily when they hear a writer read her work. Some people have told me they hear more humor in my poems at a live reading than when they see them on the page. I think that may be a matter of pacing. On the other hand, I've listened to a lot of poetry readings and I know how much you can miss. If you stop to really register one line, you miss the next three or so.

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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Kills, Looks, Metaphor, Sacrifice