Quotes by Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae

A white noise app wouldn’t work for me – I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

Noise

White

Would Be

Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don’t trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.

Memories

Struggle

Thinking

Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of Confessionalism, beyond psychoanalysis, is a very actual fall from grace. And, at least in America, people of color never occupy that position of grace the way that white people do. So I think that in some very actual ways the confessional mode, strictly speaking, is not possible for non-white writers.

Fall

People

Thinking

I actually can’t listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I’ve been listening to when I write.

Listening

Thinking

Writing

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension – no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

Believe

Creation

Language

I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I’m an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems are not weird or new by any stretch but they feel strange and new because the atmosphere is one in which no one does that. People always talk about, and with good reason, poetry’s unpopularity. When people say that they forget or they brush aside the fact that in the middle part of the last century poetry was immensely popular. Dylan Thomas was basically a rock star; so was Anne Sexton.

Atmosphere

Character

People

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

Believe

I Believe

Jesus

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

Language

Thinking

Trying

I don’t know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

Interesting

Jesus

Thinking

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they’re ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I’ve done about a book a year.

Book

Done

Years

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Able

Achievement

Animal

Atmosphere

Believe

Bigs

Body

Book

Brain

Causes

Character

Children

Cornered

Creation

Done

Easier

Editors

Fall

Glad

I Believe

Interest

Interesting

Jesus

Keys

Kids

Kind

Language

Listening

Listening To Music

Long

Lying

Mean

Memories

Musical

Noise

Opportunity

People

Phrases

Poet

Political

Real

Struggle

Successful

Thinking

Trying

Way

White

Would Be

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae

A white noise app wouldn’t work for me – I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

I actually can’t listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I’ve been listening to when I write.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension – no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

I don’t know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they’re ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I’ve done about a book a year.

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