I am very interested in memorization which is the process o… - Robert Pinsky

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I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry I write is the kind that emphasises the physical qualities of the words.

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Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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Poetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the individual's chest to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art.

The voice recognizes movements and pause, similarity and difference, recognizes and understands it in a mental and physical process.

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