How important is music to your poetry?
You know, I’ve tried to play around with ‘musical-ness’ and sound in my poetry before, but it never quite works out for me. I think there’s this lie as poets we’ve been led to believe that poetry is musical in some sense, when I think really there’s something more concretely visual about it—the synesthetic process of interpreting shapes into words, shapes into rhythms, pauses, etc. The work of my poetry is to create the illusion of an intimate music in the guts of what is actually a pretty impersonal visual art.
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