“Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.” WritingLanguageProcessFieldsAvailableYou Choose Author:Matthea Harvey
“Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.” LanguageInstructionEmbedded Author:Matthea Harvey
“I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.” ThinkingNeedsShouldLanguageWrittenMysteryBewilderment Author:Matthea Harvey
