Check out Mr. Beckett's latest interview with Eileen Tabios at e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s. Once again he gets the poet to articulate the heart of their poem's heart:
TB: Hmm…Let me ask then, what sense of "limits" or of "boundaries" or "frontiers" do you bring to a poem?
ET: I don’t bring any such limits to the poem. The poem directs me as to those and other matters. The poem determines its self.
I’m not trying to be flakey here; it’s just that, for example, at the time that I am writing a poem, I feel a sense of underlying energy (which may be fueled by how the words I’m using resonate with me). So, the poem ceases (its text) when I feel that energy die out.
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