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Robin Coste Lewis

American Poet

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I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet. Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Poet Could Write Writer Had Know Because Wanted Novels

I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know. Robin Coste Lewis

Art Me History Think Visual Would Someone Could Instead Know Known Been Art History Artist Done Just Might

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. Robin Coste Lewis

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. Robin Coste Lewis

Sung Poetry Know Very Close Means

Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that. Robin Coste Lewis

Work Joke Big Think Teenager Simultaneously Since She Knows How Big Influence Did Influence Speaks English

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