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Mary Szybist

American Poet

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered. Mary Szybist

Prayer Communication Address Out Find Some Something Voice Part True Perhaps Beyond Attracted Because Answer Always Answered Understood Been Heard Itself Cannot Moving Resemblance Fully Level

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience. Mary Szybist

Experience Find Poems Rather Than Spaces Might Turn

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves. Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise. Mary Szybist

Love Me Enterprise Poetry Endlessly Form Formal Interesting

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them. Mary Szybist

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