"The problem with this poem, as with so many poems, is not that it needs to be more “creative” or “imagistic,” but that the poem’s consciousness in relation to the poem’s content is not genuine. It’s more or less all stance, and lying. In other words, I was not ready to write this poem."
- Matthew Zapruder - from https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/17/how-to-write-a-poem-about-noguchi/