A poem I'm likely to think about when asked about a favorite poem...
maybe e.e.cummings...and there's two, but i cannot remember but that one is a love poem (very famous), and the other has the number or idea of "nine" in it...or maybe i just think of that when i read it. lorca has many...perhaps his Canción del muchacho de siete corazones, my father has a few, Lorna Dee herself has a few that move me (here's one I love but it is not my favorite of hers); Sandra Cisneros, Trinidad Sanchez.....

It's a bit silly to answer this. The truth of it is, by myself, (good) poetry flays me and my love for it has nothing to do with any one particular poem....I have a favorite everytime I read one and feel myself inhale just to let it in.

My experience with reading poetry differs from my experience with reading other types of literature...
A lot. To me it is the difference between eating pizza and eating real maple syrup candies. Probably, yeh, an awful metaphor, but I mean to say that with poetry, I gear down. I'm a fast reader, talker, typist. And that is not the way to read poetry. I do like to read "slow" enough to ingest words in a novel, but with poetry, I realllly like to slow down and let the words tumble over my tongue, blossom inside me, like the delicate and varied sweet inside the maple crystals, the crystals that need to melt, that change as you meet them, poetry changes me as I experience it. Good poetry, at least. Perhaps novels can be that good...but I think they are harder to find, maybe. And I don't have the urge to speak them aloud. Usually.

The last time I heard poetry...
I don't know. The truth is, I only hear it when I read it aloud. Mine or others'. I don't visit poetry slams, or any performances. Not because I'm against them. Because I'm a hermit who always wants to work. But I'd like to get into performing, and soaking up other peoples' junk. I think it would be good for me.

And...I would add that to me, any Spanish word with a u in it (ejemplo: Literatura) spoken with the proper accent, is a poem to me all in itself!

I think poetry is like...
Love. If you try to control it, own it, force it, or define it....you lose it. (But it is always waiting for your return)

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