Lance La Rocque : part four

How important is music to your poetry? 

I spent years trying to learn how to play the guitar and how to read music. I hoped that listening to and playing music might help me develop a greater sensitivity to sound. I don’t have any talent, but the endless practice might have helped my poems. I don’t know.  I also learned a lot about how flexible singers can be when phrasing lines over a regular beat. The same lines/lyrics can be performed very differently. Somehow that frees up my approach to lines.