How important is music to your poetry?
Very! I listen to a lot of instrumental music while I’m writing like the Dirty Three and Phillip Glass and Joana Brouk and Gail Laughton. Lorca has a lecture on the duende, something that is wordless, not a concept but maybe something resembling a feeling like a core of happiness within a vaster experience of sadness. Listening to Nick Cave or PJ Harvey or the song Dido’s Lament, those things often reach toward duende. I move for music that approaches that when I write. It’s a mood I’m enamoured with. Duende is central to my practice for sure.
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