I can hear the sounds of the English language accurately and subtly. I am reading the correspondence between William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. I am working on the page proofs for the Favorite Poem Project anthology, Americans' Favorite Poems , which will be published by Norton in November. The anthology prints poems along with quotations from the readers who volunteered to read them for the FPP archive. Then, we should consider poetry as a vehicle for communication about all aspects of our environment.
Nothing is outside the realm of poetry.
All subjects are included. Art and science are categories of making and the two categories sometimes blur and overlap. Making and knowing are part of an act of mind. Our social arrangements and customs and governments are all expressions of our relentless tendency to make. The phenomenon is so basic and pervasive that I don't know how to describe or explain it.