“I thought: What would happen if I just wrote simple sentences?” he said. “What would happen if I got rid of my subordinating conjunctions? That’s a very technical matter. But what happened when I started writing my simple sentences was, this material, which obviously was buried deep in my unconscious, came pouring out.”
The result is his new book, Black Leapt In (Barrow Street Press, $16.95), a collection of poems about his childhood in Seattle and his father, who committed suicide in 1973.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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