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That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They’re able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

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Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, ‘Book Of Hours,’ there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I’m really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life – what Langston Hughes called ‘laughing to keep from crying.’

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May 4, 2024

Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, ‘Book Of Hours,’ there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I’m really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life – what Langston Hughes called ‘laughing to keep from crying.’

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May 4, 2024

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

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