that is, by recitation, by listening/composing from an "inner ear," or muse, imagination. Poetry, for me, is a union of vision-voice-and-music, the gift of inspiration from the muse, which I must transform in order to give it away again in the form of a poem. Inspiration: to breathe in deeply and speak from those depths. Poetry makes noise. It exists as a body of sound. The words on the page are merely musical notation. [--Sam Hamill]from Kearney Hub: Poet reflects on 30 years of publishing poetry
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