“ Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ”
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
~ Robert Morgan
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
