tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post113919627950721104..comments2023-12-30T18:56:13.073-05:00Comments on Land Mammal: Six more weeks of winterAnne Haineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038705452206752521noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post-1139329599574412142006-02-07T11:26:00.000-05:002006-02-07T11:26:00.000-05:00To add: some poets that have worked as inspiration...To add: some poets that have worked as inspiration for me include Charles Wright, Chase Twichell, Ginger Andrews, and Marie Howe. (Speaking of which, when oh when will Marie Howe publish another book? What the Living Do came out in 1997! I need more Marie Howe.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post-1139292210095304302006-02-07T01:03:00.000-05:002006-02-07T01:03:00.000-05:00I constantly read other poets to get close to the ...I constantly read other poets to get close to the sources of my own poems. (Not the only thing that works for me, but it's always been essential.) I tend to go back to the same poets over and over again, though over the years the "list" of them has gotten longer.<BR/><BR/>Some poets whose work will take me to my own poems include Thomas McGrath, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tomas Transtromer, Sharon Doubiago, Yosano Akiko, Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Etheridge Knight, Joy Harjo, Tu Fu, Sappho, Olga Broumas, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Anya Achtenberg, Kenneth Rexroth, Miroslav Holub.<BR/><BR/>A few others, less widely known perhaps, are Jenne Andrews, Gerrye Payne, Siv Cedering, Roy McBride, Dale Jacobson, Pat Lowther, Olga Cabral.<BR/><BR/>Also, the essays of Bly and Rexroth will often set me going.<BR/><BR/>The above list is something like a basic list of my favorite poets overall, give or take a name or two. When I reading the work of other poets to seek out my own poems, I drink the poems in deeply, I reach for moods and landscapes and weather and lighting, for the thinks that will provoke me to feel something. This, much more than interesting turns of language or imagery or things like that (though I'll take that in too).<BR/><BR/>The poetry I like the most in general is poetry that causes me to feel something, to connect with the world around me somehow, to experience or re-experience some aspect of life in the world. Poetry I avoid, or toward which I'm indifferent, is poetry that doesn't do those things.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post-1139280882183539232006-02-06T21:54:00.000-05:002006-02-06T21:54:00.000-05:00Laura, ditto on both of your additions! I can some...Laura, ditto on both of your additions! I can sometimes be inspired the second time through a book, but once it feels familiar, it just doesn't have the same effect. And it's very rare for me to find that an anthology dumps me into writing mode. (Although occasionally, if it's a particularly cohesive or focused anthology -- but mostly I do need that more consistent voice.) <BR/><BR/>Ivy, thanks. :)Anne Haineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17038705452206752521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post-1139247946101619252006-02-06T12:45:00.000-05:002006-02-06T12:45:00.000-05:00Glad to hear you're okay.Glad to hear you're okay.Ivyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703056626322603467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089616.post-1139237718909695152006-02-06T09:55:00.000-05:002006-02-06T09:55:00.000-05:00This is *exactly* my experience of reading/writing...This is *exactly* my experience of reading/writing, Anne. I would add that it is usually my first reading of a book that sets me writing -- not (usually) rereading something I've previously enjoyed or been inspired by. And also, anthologies don't usually do it for me -- it needs to be a collection by a single poet. I guess I need that semi-consistent voice across a number of poems to get the gears turning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com