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“Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
#Teacher Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Humorous Quotes
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“One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Writing Quotes
#Students Quotes
#Should Quotes
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“Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Communication Quotes
#Suffering Quotes
#Etc Quotes
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“I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Writing Quotes
#Intelligent Quotes
#People Quotes
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“Revision is a good impulse to have.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Revision Quotes
#Impulse Quotes
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“I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Animal Quotes
#Suffering Quotes
#Sound Quotes
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“I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Moving Quotes
#Landscape Quotes
#Narrative Quotes
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“I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Home Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
#Trying Quotes
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“I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Book Quotes
#Numbers Quotes
#Projects Quotes
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“I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Book Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Failing Quotes
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“I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Book Quotes
#Different Quotes
#Magazines Quotes
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“I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Editors Quotes
#Pay Quotes
#Colleagues Quotes
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“Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.”
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Rigoberto Gonzalez
Source : Source: therumpus.net
#Editors Quotes
#Appreciate Quotes
#House Quotes
