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I find playing with form allows me to play with ideas.

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The forms often loop back on themselves... circling around on an idea in order to examine it more fully.

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I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way.

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I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live.

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I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say

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Anne Simpson

Anne Simpson

Born: 1956 (age 69)
Bio: Anne Simpson is a Canadian poet, novelist,artist and essayist.
Known for:
  1. Light Falls Through You (2000)
  2. The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness (2009)
  3. Canterbury Beach (2001)
  4. Falling (2008)

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