Tuesday 1 January 2019

John LaPine : part five

How does a poem begin?

Sometimes with a title, sometimes with an image. Sometimes I’ll say, hear, or think a phrase that feels like it belongs somewhere in a poem, so I’ll write it down and try to shape it into art later. Sometimes this works, but most of the time, the specific phrase will end up on the cutting room floor. In this way, a phrase works as scaffolding.


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