Sarah Holland-Batt

So, yeah, I've been returning to Louise Glick.

I've been returning to Sharon Olds, who's another

poet who's been incredibly important to me in my life.

And then also some of those old poets, I've been rereading Wallace Stevens.

I've been rereading A.R.

Ammons.

I've been rereading a little bit of T.S.

Eliot.

So that's, I think, the lovely thing.

Once you love poetry and know it, it can hit in different ways or at different angles in your time of life that you read it.

That's a tough question.

Some people will be really excited by poems that they find really approachable.

Other people like me will be really excited when they hear that kind of majestic thundering of T.S.

Eliot.

You know, it's really, I think, a question of the reader's sort of willingness, I suppose, to be led along by the poet.

You know, that's the first thing.

You've got to start with the attitude that this is not an intelligence test.

This is not, you know, a puzzle that has one possible meaning or one possible interpretation.

It's not a maze.

it's a poet kind of crafting an experience through language, through rhetoric, through imagery, through ideas that, you know, you're supposed to read more than once to kind of interpret, to understand.