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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459661" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gertrude Stein is interviewed on American poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there was the knocking on the door<br>that we were expecting<br>and it was the man<br>that we were expecting<br>with the questions we were expecting<br>to which answers were expected<br>by those who expect answers<br>as if life were like that<br>which for writers it is not</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yes, tea was drunk<br>and after tea the tape recorder set up<br>so that what I said<br>I would continue to say<br>somewhere else<br>even when I changed my mind<br>here and nowhere else</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he said Ms Stein<br>what do you think of American poetry<br>and we said well it's American<br>and it's poetry<br>that's as it should be<br>and really that's all there is to say<br>and the man looked disappointed<br>so we asked him did he read poetry<br>and he said poetry no I dont read poetry<br>but my editor does<br>so I said it's really about Americans<br>living their lives<br>that's what American poetry is really about<br>because Americans move around<br>and so their words move around and<br>words in English have lost their intensity<br>but American words are always on the move<br>and they are more intense<br>yes, Americans living among Americans<br>and talking to their neighbours<br>if it's not about that<br>it's not really American poetry at all is it<br>if it's not about that<br>then why bother writing poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the man was asking about a rose<br>being a rose being a rose and we said<br>for a hundred years the rose<br>has not been red in poetry<br>but now for the first time in a hundred years<br>the rose is red again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the man looked at his watch<br>and said thank you Ms Stein<br>and was switching off his tape recorder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and a month later that<br>was what we said<br>in a magazine much read<br>by Americans who mostly<br>are not poets no very few but we said it<br>we know that this is so<br>because we read it there<br>and we think that really<br>that was all there was to say<br>because that was all we think<br>is really important<br>about American Poetry<br>that the words move like Americans move<br>and that is exciting for a writer<br>and that is the important thing about<br>American Poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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