Rigoberto Gonzalez Quotes

• Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Communication, Suffering, Etc

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Writing, Students, Should

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Writing, Intelligent, People

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• Revision is a good impulse to have.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Revision, Impulse

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• I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Animal, Suffering, Sound

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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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  Moving, Landscape, Narrative

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Home, Perfect, Trying

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• I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Book, Numbers, Projects

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Book, Want, Failing

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• I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Book, Different, Magazines

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• I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Editors, Pay, Colleagues

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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.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Editors, Appreciate, House

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