Monday, 14 September 2020

Jacob Strautmann : part two

How important is music to your poetry?

In middle school, I thought I would be a musician. When I gave that up, I thought the poems could be my songs. The analogy broke down as I’ve grown less sure of the separation between the genres. Now, I don’t write poems to be songs, but I write poems with songs underneath them. I have a trio of songs built to tunes by the electronic composer Dallas Campbell. Tom Petty plays in the background of a poem in my book. Currently, I’m trying to crowbar The Cure’s ‘Lullaby’ into a poem of Norse myth. I think my first hero was Beethoven, and when I write a poem that surprises me, I remember that.

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