Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Robert Morgan Read Quote
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Robert Morgan Read Quote
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. Robert Morgan Read Quote
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. Robert Morgan Read Quote
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing. Robert Morgan Read Quote
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation… discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan Read Quote