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“I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.”

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Joan Larkin, born in 1939, is an accomplished Irish poet known for her profound emotions and unique style. Her poetry delves into themes such as personal identity, historical memory, and the female experience. more

“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.”

People Way Want Needs Giving Able Language Taken Violence Corporate Over It Mentality Toys Honored Responding Shallowness

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“I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.”

People Knows Way Want Alive

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“People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.”

People Thinking Needs Inspiration Bars Funeral Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

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“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”

Feels Different Hard Sound My Own Roots Rhythm Fluid Anglo Saxon Different Music Spanish And English

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“Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.”

Want Trying Firsts I Can Able Sound Imagine Rhythm Translate

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