[New-Poetry] “What is your work about?”

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Something  Like a Poem  | Print |   E-mail  
Written by Dan  Gerber     
Wednesday, 24 October 2007   
The most common and certainly the most difficult question I might be asked by 
 a stranger on an airplane is, “What is your work about?” It’s a conundrum 
for  any artist. And I suspect the one single quality that may peg one as an  
artist—as opposed to, say, a craftsman—may be the artist’s inability to form a 
 satisfactory answer.  
I could say it’s about the process of discovering what it’s about. And that  
would be honest. I could quote William Faulkner and say, “it’s about the 
human  heart in conflict with itself.” And that would be honest too.  
What my poems are about is



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