I started writing poems as soon as I started meeting poets and hearing poets read their work, immediately after I arrived in Iowa. When I got to Iowa and began to write poems, I think I had finally discovered how to compose on some level; I was composing the poems. They proceeded harmonically and were both emotional and abstract. I of course would never have said this at the time. The second poetry reading I attended was by Bob Creeley, and I was tremendously impressed by his musicality and the fact that I couldn’t understand him and didn’t at all mind that.
I started writing poems as soon as I started meeting poets and hearing poets read their work, immediately after I arrived in Iowa.
When I got to Iowa and began to write poems, I think I had finally discovered how to compose on some level; I was composing the poems. They proceeded harmonically and were both emotional and abstract. I of course would never have said this at the time. The second poetry reading I attended was by Bob Creeley, and I was tremendously impressed by his musicality and the fact that I couldn’t understand him and didn’t at all mind that.
Brown, Laynie. “A Conversation with Alice Notley on the Poet’s Novel.” Jacket 2, 15 Mar. 2013, jacket2.org/commentary/conversation-alice-notley-poets-novel.
