Michael Schmidt (poet)
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Michael Schmidt (born 1947, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University.
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[edit] Lives of the Poets,Phoenix,1988
- What matters in poetry is form,how words work together,the sounds and silences their combinations make.the ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.
- A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance,or across the other side of the world.
[edit] Reading Modern Poetry,London,1989
- Poetry is a collaborative art,and yet- as it is being created-the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.
- Poetry is a process,a form of discovery,which if it serves a cause,transcends it
