On Denise Riley
The LRB Podcast
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The Power of Constraints
The poem to be any good has got to know more than I know. If the work isn't very recalcitrant to me, and if it isn't running ahead of me all the time, then I know it's poor work. That's partly why I like constraints more and more is the constraint gives me something to resist. It's a force outside myself. And that's truly what I found so sympathetic about Riley, was her vulnerability in allowing herself to approach language as a higher order, or higher power.
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