How to Dig for Fire

How to Dig for Fire

“My kind of poetry is this constant dredging up of things out of the psyche.”

-David Bottoms (Interview – “Fishing From The Poetry Boat”)

“The Greek fishermen do not / play on the beach and I don’t / write funny poems.”

-Jack Gilbert (Metier)

“There’s something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anyone can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.”

-Billy Collins

“Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It’s a way of enticing the reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.”

-Billy Collins