Poems–A. Baez

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. Typically, I employ a “long marination” approach with my poems, trying to allow as much time as needed for a piece’s ideas and form to develop and be refined as fully as possible. This can take months or years. Ultimately, though, a poem is like a garden–a living thing in continual evolution.

In recent years, 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 to equal effect in free verse. Beyond that, I’ve always been drawn to those aspects of musicality, rhetorical power, and structural sophistication that I believe are uniquely possible in formal idioms. Of the established forms, I’ve found the sonnet to be a particularly hospitable receptacle for many of my ideas. I also relish devising custom, nonce forms to embody and rhetorically reinforce certain themes that interest me.

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 to me when I think of how much of my poems is attributable, either directly or indirectly, to them. My goal, ultimately, is to subject all of the poems here to that kind of rigorous scrutiny. Please help me, if you feel so inclined, with your own comments. 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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