TWC » Structure & Surprise http://www.twc.org Teachers & Writers Collaborative Mon, 13 May 2013 14:45:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Peter Gizzi on Poetry http://www.twc.org/2013/05/peter-gizzi-on-poetry/ http://www.twc.org/2013/05/peter-gizzi-on-poetry/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 20:01:08 +0000 twco8850 http://www.twc.org/?p=2553 Continue reading →]]> …I do not write “about” things but “with” things or “out of” things. And I certainly do not map out a poem before I write it…I often learn after the fact of writing a poem what it may ultimately mean, and often even that notion of meaning shifts as the poem and I move through time (p.197-198).

-Peter Gizzi comments on his poem, “Human Memory Is Organic” in T&W book Structure & Surprise : Engaging Poetic Turns

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