http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/all-memory-is-fiction-again/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:17:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/all-memory-is-fiction-again/#comment-789 Matt Cozart Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:02:24 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=347#comment-789 Yeah, I think the only facts I can really count on are the ones found in math textbooks and the Guiness Book of World Records. I'm probably just being lazy, but I figure truth will take care of itself if I just write a good poem. (Which, as we all know, is so easy.) And I usually don't write about "real events" anyway, which means I get to be even lazier. In fact, I even like to fabricate history on purpose. Why not? Historians do it all the time. Yeah, I think the only facts I can really count on are the ones found in math textbooks and the Guiness Book of World Records. I’m probably just being lazy, but I figure truth will take care of itself if I just write a good poem. (Which, as we all know, is so easy.) And I usually don’t write about “real events” anyway, which means I get to be even lazier. In fact, I even like to fabricate history on purpose. Why not? Historians do it all the time.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/all-memory-is-fiction-again/#comment-788 Ange Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:17:12 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=347#comment-788 This is a great post, Kwame. Hopefully it will give readers who have expectations of pure authenticity, pure autobiography, something to think about. This is a great post, Kwame. Hopefully it will give readers who have expectations of pure authenticity, pure autobiography, something to think about.

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