I think of Allen Ginsburg's observation that every beginning poet writes about "I am sitting here with this blank piece of paper." Above my desk in my room in Tempe I had a poster of hundreds of old movie stills, and I often thought of that Ginsberg line as I tried to write poetry while staring at images from "Citzen Kane", "King Kong" and "The Maltese Falcon".
I think of Allen Ginsburg's observation that every beginning poet writes about "I am sitting here with this blank piece of paper." Above my desk in my room in Tempe I had a poster of hundreds of old movie stills, and I often thought of that Ginsberg line as I tried to write poetry while staring at images from "Citzen Kane", "King Kong" and "The Maltese Falcon".