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The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

Form Is A Straitjacket In The Way That A Straitjacket Was A Straitjacket For Houdini.

It's Not As If I'm Trying To Write Crossword Puzzles To Which One Might Find An Answer At The Back Of The Book Or Anything Like That.

There's Very Little Of The Intentional About The Business Of Writing Poetry, As Least As Far As I Can See.

What I Try To Do Is To Go Into A Poem - And One Writes Them, Of Course, Poem By Poem - To Go Into Each Poem, First Of All Without Having Any Sense Whatsoever Of Where It's Going To End Up