370:: "All confessional means to me is this...I live the poem before I write it." When writing about his own personal pain, he sees himself as both victim and perpetrator. Jenny Keith, the interviewer, describes how Warner's poetry "reflects his vigorous daily life working on a horse farm, foaling mares, pitching hay, mending fences. The poems are richly descriptive, rendering his experiences with acute realism and little if any dramatic embellishment." As Warner explains, "I can start a poem explaining how I went to the High's store and bought a carton of eggs...and there's nothing non-artistic about that. Every experience counts." Warner says that the "'beautiful forms' that poets such as
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seek to preserve are no longer as relevant as they once were: “Nowadays, with all of the fantasies perpetuated by advertising and tabloid journalism, people are out of touch. They need reality--badly. Many years ago, if you wanted a window you went to the window maker--the glazier. Today, the guy who
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sells you the window has never made one. The guy that installs the window has never made one. There's this abstraction going on which is important to resist from time to time by placing the actual over the conceptual."
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