Ian Fishman Talks to Matthew Rohrer
"There is no perfect poem, and I think, perfection, how dreary. If I have an idea for a poem or even an image that I want to try out, I’ll write that poem ten times. Not a revision, not ten drafts, but I’ll just do it again, and I’ll do nine more. I know there’s no perfect way to do it, but one of them will be the best one, or one of them will be the most exciting."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Diane Seuss on Reading Prose
"Keats’s ballad opens with three stanzas in the voice of a questioner, after which the knight-at-arms takes over, answering the questioner through storytelling. Likewise, set at the center of Lorca’s poem is a dialogue between the older and younger man. As the green girl teeters on the balcony, suspended between dream and reality, life and death, so Keats’s knight occupies the in-between, stranded by the faery 'On the cold hill’s side.' And each poem, in its way, serves as an allegory for the container itself, the ballad form, which inhabits the liminal space between narrative and lyric, story and song." |
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