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Don McKay es poeta canadiense.

✵ 1942
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“There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall”

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'Apparatus' 1997 McClelland & Stewart Nov 2014
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“The medatative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.”

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'The Appropriate Gesture' interview with Ken Babstock Dec 2001.
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“The first indication of one's status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry.”

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Baler Twine

“Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'. Poetry is another.”

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'Paradoxides' 2012
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“The nature poet may (should in fact ), resort to the field guide or library but will keep coming back, figuratively speaking, to the trail - to the grain of experience.”

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Baler Twine

“Before the wonderful, terrible wrestling with words and music there is the state of mind I'm calling 'poetic attention' … a sort of readiness … a form of knowing.”

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Baler Twine

“Poets are supremely interested in what language can't do, in order to gesture outside, they use language in a way that flirts with its destruction.”

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Baler Twine

“As I grew older the poetic surround becomes more important. I realize that the 'poetic attention' was more important to me than poetry was. The 'poetic attention' being a kind of longing without the desire to posess.”

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