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• There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out, and to modulate, so there are different ways of looking at any experience for the reader. Even having short poems and long poems - there has to be some kind of variation in the experience of reading as a whole.

  Kevin Powers

  Reading, Long, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.

  Kevin Powers

  Reading, Brain, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

  Kevin Powers

  Reading, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

  Kevin Powers

  Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net