News at Eleven: Music is the great need of a poet.

I go hunting for it in the same way I imagine a sculptor goes digging for the right clay in some remote region where the conditions make the red stone soft. There is an idea, in the sculptor's mind, of what she wants to make. However, what she finds as she digs sometimes combines with her own ideas, the pressures of her hands, the light of day, the art she's been influenced by, to make something she didn't necessarily plan, but something that exact clay did allow in the first place. It's something like that. I go searching for music. Much more, in fact, than I go searching for subject. [--Katie Ford]

from SF Station: Interview with Poet Katie Ford

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