Q: What quality above all do you look for and love in somebody else's poem?
Rae Armantrout: Fierceness. Speed. Quickness. That's why I don't do that filler stuff we were talking about earlier. Grace, actually. Sonic pleasure is important to me. And surprise. When something surprises me, when there's a word that seems right but you didn't see it coming at all. That.
Hear the interview at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-lydon/pulitzer-poet-rae-armantr_b_582301.html
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