How important is music to your poetry?
Writing poetry is like scoring the page, at least that is how I understand the writing process. Poetry’s affinity with musical composition has been on my mind since my first chapbook. It became more dominant thereafter as I tend to write book-length poems. Spaces between words, line breaks, inflections, and word-shapes carefully match a particular flow and rhythm that drives the writing. Words appear as a product of this rhythm. Sonic relations are as important as the semantic connections between words. The page is a chorus of utterings that needs to be silenced to create the pauses and sounds that make a poem. The white page is abuzz with sound—which is both organic and the music of abstraction, the lineation of concepts.
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