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Lance Larsen
Poet. LDS. BYU.
http://www.meridianmagazine.com/poet...3responds.html I like this man, this poet, quite a bit. Here is some advice from him: Quote:
And his second book, In All Their Animal Brilliance. Eraseable Walls is a very good book. I very much admired the craft contained in it. (The linked interview was before Animal Brilliance was published). However, when I read Animal Brilliance, I was really blown away by how much better he had become. It was no longer craft, it was a the pure voice of a mature poet. Instead of "that was pretty neat how he did that" it became organic poetry, veritable beasts, sustained of themselves, separate from the writer. Lance had disappeared from the poems. The fingerprints that were present in Eraseable Walls had disappeared in Animal Brilliance. I actually know Lance. Not well. I don't know that he knows me, but he was once acquainted with me. I made some comment to him about the occasional efforts of some to "popularize" poetry, and he said that like some other poets, he had no desire to participate in such efforts. Let it be our secret. Like monks or nuns, of some arcane order, living in their private universes. A good poem is a way, for just a moment, to see the world anew. Your synapses cross in novel ways, and the spark of it brings a smile to your lips. In a world of blather, distraction, confusion, triviality, sports controversy, message board flamewars, political infighting, and all the other bullshit that we literally pour into our heads, it would be a shame if there were no poets. And a shame if poets were to exist, but were never to be heard. A poem from him (I am taking the liberty of posting the poem that is published in the Meridian Article. Lance, or representative of Lance, if you are reading this, we will gladly take it down if you wish): Quote:
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