Portal:Poetry/Quotes archive/Week 52 2006

Q: How would you explain what a poem is to my seven year old?

A: A poem is a compact sequence of unpredictable images. I remember reading about a B-baller called "Half Man Half Amazing". That phrase alone is a poem.

&mdash; Vietnamese-American poet Linh Dinh, interview at "Here Comes Everybody" blog, December 14, 2004

(http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/12/linh-dinh-is-author-of-two-collections.html)