i just posted this, and find something related....
for example:
Tom Beckett: "Poetry as a way of life." What does that mean for you, Eileen?
Eileen Tabios: I often answer the question based on the color of the sky. As the sky is a lovely uninterrupted sapphire at the time I answer your question, I’ll say that the phrase means that I would like no seam between how I live and how I write my poems. That just as I want to write good poems (however “good” is defined), I’d like to live as a good person, which is to say, as a responsible human being. I know that some poets who may be awful as people are nonetheless capable of writing and have written good poems. But I’d like no difference, if possible, for myself. As a poetics, this means that I choose to have faith that being a good person is relevant to writing good poems -- there is much proof that the poetic process need not work this way but I’ve decided that, consciously anyway, I would like to minimize psychic dysfunctional tendencies between my psyche and poetry.
