About Anne Stevenson: Anne Stevenson is an American-British poet and writer.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound...
