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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
Born:
1956
(age 68)
Bio:
Anne Simpson is a Canadian poet, novelist,artist and essayist.
Known for:
Light Falls Through You (2000)
The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness (2009)
Canterbury Beach (2001)
Falling (2008)
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