“I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.”
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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.