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Poet Roundtable
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AOTW: Do you have a poem that you think defines you?
Robin Robertson: No. There are poems of mine that I'm still fond of, but that is not quite the same thing. The last poem written for Slow Air was a re-telling of the Minotaur myth: "Asterion and the God." It features Dionysus, my favourite god, and I feel tender toward the poem; not just because it is relatively recent but because I feel the same for the poor man-bull as I would for any damaged child.
Mark Ford: No, though I suppose the first poem I ever wrote called "A Swimming Pool Full of Peanuts" is by far my most popular. It's the only one I've ever written that people who don't generally read poetry tend to like. I wrote it very quickly, in about half an hour, after a dream, and remember thinking as I finished it that writing poetry wasn't too difficult.
Daniel Mark Epstein: No. I am changing too rapidly, and begging Walt Whitman's pardon, "I contain multitudes."
Carol Muske-Dukes: No. But a recent poem of mine called "A Private Matter" (published in the NY'er last December) conveyed something about my life right now, my sense of grief over my husband's death, that I would not have thought possible for me to express --- until the poem "happened."
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