What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Certainly Merwin and Wright but also Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich. I was also really influenced (and still am) by Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Rainier Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, Jorie Graham, Federico Garcia Lorca, Charles Wright, Paul Celan, Georg Trakl, Rita Dove, and H.D. I think H.D.’s “Eurydice” may be the great American poem, and it is certainly one of the most underrated. I think about it all the time.
But, I would also say that artists like Paul Klee, Robert Motherwell, and Dorothea Lange, (and now Twombly) have changed how I think about my practice. I have poems about all of four of these visual artists.
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