Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.
Dorianne LauxA poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.
Dorianne LauxGood writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
Dorianne LauxTag: writing
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.
Dorianne LauxTag: poetry
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
Dorianne LauxTag: poetry writing poet writer
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
Dorianne LauxYou are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.
Dorianne LauxThat's how it is sometimes--
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you're just too tired to open it.
Tag: dust
How not to imagine the tumors
ripening beneath his skin, flesh
I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips,
pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights
so hard I thought I could enter him, open
his back at the spine like a door or a curtain
and slip in like a small fish between his ribs,
nudge the coral of his brains with my lips,
brushing over the blue coil of his bowels
with the fluted silk of my tail.
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.
Dorianne LauxTag: poetry
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