“I do everything as a poet. I write novels as a poet; I write essays as a poet.”

From a wonderful interview with Lisa Robertson in The Los Angeles Review of Books. To contextualize the quotation further:

“I do everything as a poet. I write novels as a poet; I write essays as a poet. I say that as a way of putting poetry, as an unstable form of thinking and composing, in the foreground, more than through any sort of necessary identity that I might feel with the poem per se.

I see poetry as being so capacious and so infinite, partly because, more than any other literary form, it’s barely determined by market forces. There’s freedom in poetry.”

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