For me, a poem is not about ideas. It’s never an idea that I have. It’s basically an image or a sense, mostly images, that have to do with the senses, and so the five senses, and then from the image, then, you know, I have to write it down. And so, once I start writing, it’s almost automatic, you know, the next line follows. It’s not planning, I don’t plan collections of poetry.

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For me, a poem is not about ideas. It’s never an idea that I have. It’s basically an image or a sense, mostly images, that have to do with the senses, and so the five senses, and then from the image, then, you know, I have to write it down. And so, once I start writing, it’s almost automatic, you know, the next line follows. It’s not planning, I don’t plan collections of poetry.

On how he viewed poems in “Transcript from an interview with Francisco X. Alarcon” (Reading Rockets)