I love what you say about the form talking back. That captures something absolutely essential. You bring what you bring. The form then makes you do things you d

I love what you say about the form talking back. That captures something absolutely essential. You bring what you bring. The form then makes you do things you didn’t know you could do, tells you things you didn’t know. I remember when I was in my twenties, trying to write a sonnet sequence, and when I’d just come to the last couplet of the second sonnet, thinking, oh my God, I know what that last line is going to be. I had no idea that was where the sequence was going, but the form had spoken. The form had pushed back. — rowan williams https://imagejournal.org/article/obliqueness-and-extravagance-a-conversation-with-rowan-williamsand-shane-mccrae/ https://imagejournal.org/article/obliqueness-and-extravaganc...