Looking back on “Trout Eyes," I feel that it’s a poem about experiencing the world without having the language to explain it—everything is so immediate. As a child, I wanted to understand why things were the way they were. What did adults know that made them adults? I couldn’t see the “logical" connections between things, and, somehow, that made them seem very strange and miraculous.Šari Dale on "Trout Eyes" |
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The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Redefined"The cowboy poets are, almost to a person, real cowboys, defined by what they do....physical work in support of cattling operations, ranch work, which can happen, among other places, on the range, in the rodeo ring, on the farm, at the feed store, in the forest, on the mountain, and in the home–and not by race, gender, or a simple-minded and violent reactivity." |
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What Sparks Poetry:Heather Green on "Villains""I try to develop a vision of the poem as a crystalline structure, to see the points, often images or nouns, in the structure, to see the energies, sometimes prepositional, sometimes sonic, sometimes emotional, that travel between and among these points in the text, and to consider the way the light of our attention might play on and activate the multifarious connections." |
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