John Luna : part four

4. Why is poetry important?

I am a visual artist as well as a writer, and for years when engaged with one practice would become convinced that there were no other practices or preoccupations worth having, but it was actually the space held in reserve between this illusion of having two choices that was vital. I suppose I would say because it is already happening at all times, that every concern we have with poetry about sound or meaning or voice or form are already problems of a social culture and that we see them in the young, for instance, and see them in our symptoms and interfaces and politics. So (admitting it’s bad to start a sentence with ‘so’) you might as well ask, ‘why is will important?’ Or, ‘what is will and why is it important to ask?’