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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.

What Actually Makes Poetry Poetry Is Of Course Impossible To Define. We Recognize It When We Hear It, When We See It, But We Can't Define It.

Teaching Writing Over The Years Intrudes On Your Own Writing In Important Ways, Taking Away Some Of The Excitement Of Poetry.

Southern Poets Are Still Writing Narrative Poems, Poems In Forms, Dramatic Poems.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.