Poet’s Companion: “Writing and Knowing,” p. 19 [RR]

James Galvan
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Steve Pett

Poet’s Companion: “Writing and Knowing,” p. 19 [RR]

1. “We’ve been told again to write about what we know, but we don’t trust
that advice.”
2. “The trick is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own
what we know, and then give it away in language”
3. “Poetry is an intimate act.”
4. Few of us begin to write a poem about “death” or “desire.”
5. “I listen to myself” this kind of listening is both tedious and
courageous”