It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation.. Discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
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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.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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