“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
C.D. Wright“Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.”
C.D. Wright“The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.”
C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”
C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil