Word: loving
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What were the critics like? Some of them were vicious and horrified, and some in love with the book, like John Updike and Henry Miller. There was no gray area. They either were outraged or ecstatic. Nothing in-between, which I suppose is good. (See the top 10 John Updike novels...
What can you do in poetry that you can't do in prose? In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. So poetry is what we reserve for the most intense human emotion...
This poetry is serious. The love that you describe here is sober; these are serious reflections on mortality. There's an awful lot of that. I think you reach a certain age and friends begin dying around you, and it's impossible not to contemplate that. I think that's a stage of life where you have to make your peace with the fact that some of the people who have been the most important to you are going or are gone. Sometimes you look through your database and you think, half the people in here are dead...
...write that love is never enough to save us. Why? The experience of love - yes, it's mind-expanding and soul-expanding, but it cannot save us from loneliness or mortality. That's a paradox because we hope it will...
...sing. Girl's got pipes. She does sing just a little bit in the episode where she plays a backup singer. I'd love her to sing more, but apparently this isn't just my playground, I do have to tell responsible stories. She can't sing in every episode. Dammit...