"What
is happening to me, allowing for lies and exaggerations which I try to
avoid, goes into my poems. I don’t think my experiences are clarified or
made beautiful for myself or anyone else, they are just there in
whatever form I can find them.... My formal 'stance'
is found at the crossroads where what I know and can't get meets what is
left of that I know and can bear without hatred... It may be that
poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their
detail; or conversely that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of
incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on
specific occasions, or both all the time."
-Frank O'Hara in Donald Allen's New American Poetry
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