Quotes
“That way of noticing the oddness or loveliness or some particularity in the commonplace . . . this is something that contemporary poetry's pretty good at. Come to think of it, it may be the outstanding quality of the poetry of our times, the way many of today's best poems insist that we look again at these seemingly ordinary, even lowly, things, objects of bland domesticity, brutish creatures and insects, scuffed street corners . . . Whatever once seemed too low for the subject of poetry can now be the subject of poetry.”
—BiblioBuffet .
And:
"What poetry tries to do is bear the harsh and luminous world into language".
—Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2001, in the article "Measuring Word's Worth"
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