Juliana Spahr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.
-- Juliana Spahr

#Years #Annoyed #Poetic
What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.
-- Juliana Spahr

#Girl #Mother #Writing
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?
-- Juliana Spahr

#Teaching #Reading #Years
I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.
-- Juliana Spahr

#Analysis #Conservative #Form
Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.
-- Juliana Spahr

#Matter #Program #Form

I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

Juliana Spahr famous quotes

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