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John Barton
Canadian Poet
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I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. John Barton
Sometimes Word Become Dissimilar Drawing Intrigued Seemingly Unrelated Combining Ideas Might Meanings Many Images
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. John Barton
Experiment About Poem Point Deliver Taken Reveals Prove Arrive End Predetermined Anything Process Much Disprove
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. John Barton
Inquiry Poem Poetry Exciting Unstable Reader Makes Very Experienced Interactive Agent Uses
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. John Barton
Good Responses Some Allow Blind Reader Knows Readers How Them Inappropriate Prejudices Disregard
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? John Barton
Easily Poem Poetry Results Reader Expect Any Should Grasped Why Fast
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. John Barton
Nature Own Tools Inquiry Poetry Another Form Procedures Unique Using Phenomena
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. John Barton
Change Past Spells Poetry Came Effect Form In The Past Used
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. John Barton
World Way Poetry Had Reader Effect Which Then Views Desired
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. John Barton
Me Year Group Intrigued Colour Colours Hot Absurd Institute Became Decide Theory Each Season Each Year Amused
I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. John Barton
Administer Find Magazine Without Exhausting Office Staff Paid
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. John Barton
Become Community Our Our Lives Jobs Only Poets Fact Like Close Children Busier Used Lives Belong
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. John Barton
Privacy Respect Writing Sometimes Remove Few Poem Take Steps Like Make Readers Subject Link Order Exploitative Engaged
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. John Barton
Long Relative Say Has-Been Would Constant Poem Poems Write Been Chose Conscious Level
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. John Barton
God Only Ideal Reader Knows Who
I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. John Barton
Alone Time Experience Own Our Way Feel Obsessed Make Because Vulnerable Makes Always Passage Been Very Us
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. John Barton
Time Me New Things Summarize Our Our Lives Poetry Obsession New Pass End Want Happen Hold Informs Us Certain Hard Moments Lives Things

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