Denise Duhamel Quotes - Page 2

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• I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

  Denise Duhamel

  Song, Book, Breathing

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• In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

  Denise Duhamel

  Fun, Writing, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing.

  Denise Duhamel

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

  Denise Duhamel

  Letting Go, Writing, Lines

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• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

  Denise Duhamel

  Years, Issues, Political

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• Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

  Denise Duhamel

  Dream, Art, Media

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