“My poems are full of wobble. I like precision, but I also like wobble. I don’t know if you can have both, but I’m trying. The word erasures in the line “my erasures were featured,” for example, has several meanings. I like a particular kind of ambiguity where you’re yo-yoing back and forth between what different words could potentially mean, being bounced around by the different possibilities.” —Rae Armantrout, from The Paris Review “The Art of Poetry, no. 106”
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