Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
doe modern categorization
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
discovery interesting long
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
special details way
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
writing people doubt
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
powerful writing southern
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
book home use
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
chinese mathematics interest
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
people fine associates
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
character events fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
thinking essence taught
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
encouragement ideas pay
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
philosophical language preoccupation
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
movie school writing
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.