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The Black Mountain Poet I Like Most Is The Early Creeley. Those Early Poems Seem Very Lyrical And Very Traditional, With A Lot Of Voice And Character.

Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events, Places.

When You Have An Idea For A Story, You Want Those Characters To Reach As Many People As You Can. I Think You Normally Think Of Prose As A Way Of Doing That. It Fits Our Time, The Culture.

Philip Larkin Has A Tough Honesty And Sense Of Humor That I Find Irresistible, As A Contemporary Poet.

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.