“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
