News at Eleven: I brought up a batch of books,

all prose books, and no verse, no poetry. I stacked them on the dining room table. To write a poem I would take three of the books, of three different kinds: I would have one novel, usually a book of psychology or science or something, and then some third depending on what was around. I would start opening them and getting phrases out, sort of at random . . . My eyes might go down and light on a phrase, and I would put it in.

from Radio Open Source: Whose Words These Are (18): Keith Waldrop

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