“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.”
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.