"It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do."

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Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

Sam Hamill

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