Wednesday, April 22, 2015

ANOTHER QUOTE FOR POETRY MONTH (YEAR/LIFE)

"When I write my only concern is accuracy. I try to write accurately from the poise of mind which lets us see that things are exactly what they seem. I never worry about beauty, if it is accurate there is always beauty. I never worry about form, if it is accurate there is always form."  —Lew Welch (from the preface to Ring of Bone)

4 comments:

-K- said...

Reminds me of O'Hara's "Personism" in that they're both advocating directness.

Lally said...

Do you know Welch's poems? I think you'd dig him. He walked into the woods at Big Sur and disappeared, his body never found. But his poems survived, thankfully.

-K- said...

Not too familiar at all, honestly. And that goes for a lot of the West Coast-based poets of the Fifties through the Seventies.

Lally said...

Aram Saroyan wrote a terrific book about Welch (and other "Beat" writers) called GENESIS ANGELS...and the collection of Welch's poetry, RING OF BONE, remains a book I dip into over the years...