“Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.” WayMindKindUseDarkRhetoricPropsFoils Author:Martha Ronk
“I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.” ThinkingWayKindMadeEyeUsedExampleShapesGardenEarsDressesQueensJust OneReignVirginsSpyCastlesAppearingSymbolismQueen ElizabethWearing A Dress Author:Martha Ronk
“I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindInterestPoetTrainingContemporaryVisualsImagery Author:Martha Ronk
“I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.” WayI CanEndsBodyMovingLinesToo MuchOpaque Author:Martha Ronk
“Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.” WayWritingDifferentSeemsFallPayAttentionGroupsPoetPay AttentionDifferent Ways Author:Martha Ronk
“One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.” IfsWayWritingTryingLanguageLimitsClaims Author:Martha Ronk