Poems–A. Baez

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Welcome to my poetry collection!

While this site is in a blog format, it is really a slowly-amassing collection of my most finished work. I tend to “marinate” each of my poems a long time in a complex “sauce” of ideas, inspirations, and experimental approaches. This can take months or years. Ultimately, though, a poem is like a garden–a living thing in continual evolution.

In the past couple of decades, I’ve gravitated toward formal styles. I’ve found that through them, I’m able to focus, unfold, and structure my ideas in a way that I rarely can in free verse. Beyond that, I’ve always been drawn to varieties of musicality, rhetorical power, and structural sophistication that are uniquely possible in formal idioms. Of the established forms, I’ve found the sonnet to be particularly hospitable to my ideas. I also deeply enjoy devising custom forms to embody and rhetorically reinforce certain of my chosen themes.

I owe a big debt to the many poets, friends, and family members who have helped me with their constructive criticism and feedback over the years. It’s shocking when I think of what percentage of a given poem is attributable, either directly or indirectly, to them. My goal, ultimately, is to subject all of the poems here to the most rigorous of such scrutiny. Please help me with your own comments, dear reader. After all, it takes a village to raise a poem!

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

–Oscar Wilde

 

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