I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>