Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
character thinking ideas
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
art years ideas
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
modern poetry-is watersheds
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
writing past thinking
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
father personality excess
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
thinking essence taught
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
character events fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
people fine associates
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
book home use
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
writing people doubt
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
writing southern narrative
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
people labels use
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.