How important is music to your poetry?
Music is tremendously important to me, but although I’m also a songwriter, I think of poetry and songwriting as very distinct forms of expression. While the lyrics of a song have the music against which to counterpoint, the words of a lyric poem have only themselves to create the rhythmic paradigms against which to counterpoint. Of course there were moments in history (and pre-history) when these forms were closer to one another, but they have emerged as two different disciplines, and I think that adds to the richness of our human creation.
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