Monday 13 May 2019

G. E. Schwartz : part four

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?

At near 61 now, I approach the page, especially in my "solo" work of poems themselves, as a kind of temenos, a sacred place, a space (almost a landscape) dedicated to worship or deemed divine. When at the outset, when I began writing steadily on in my teens, the last thing I wanted in my work was the imaginative power of numinosity, as then, under the heavy influence of John Berryman, it was all about creating poems as soliloquys, characters speaking their profane bits.

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