What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?
Finding a sweet spot between too much and not enough dot-connecting. I don’t think this challenge is at all unique to poetry; it’s one of the great difficulties of much communication, certainly of literature. We can’t see inside readers’ heads, and our own heads are too familiar a landscape to us. How do we make our own thinking strange enough to ourselves that when we write it, it’s new, with all the elements readers need to come to an understanding, but without holding the reader’s hand?
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