Lectures on poetry & writing by Richard Hugo (cont.) If you are a private poet, then your vocabulary is limited by your obsessions. You are after those words you can own and ways of putting in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed. Your triggering subjects are those that ignite…
Tag: the Paris Review
The Triggering Town
Lectures on poetry & writing by Richard Hugo (cont.) I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the words to the subject is a strong one. The relation of the words to the writer is weak. (Since the majority of your reading…
something always occurs
I’m still reading writers on writing. Here is quote from William Stafford: Every day I get up and look out the window, and something occurs to me, something always occurs to me. And if it doesn’t, I just lower my standards Why am I so interested in writers writings on writing? I suspect it to be…
sub rosa 