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  • Poetry » Narrative, Other Re: Rain Is Laughing at Me

    This poem has so many beautiful moments. I get a lot of glimpses into the emotion behind it- I see the impatience that comes with being a child, the weariness ...

    Dec 20, 2016


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch