Gregory Pardlo Quotes

• Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Trying, Answers, Poet

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• I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

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  Two, Space, Kind

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• I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

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  Distance, Ironic, Brooklyn

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• On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.

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  Teaching, Reading, Thinking

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• My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.

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  Bullying, Writing, Emotional

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