Q. How does one best enter that state of intense concentration necessary for creativity?
* * *
Hila Ratzabi: Where do poems come from for you? Is it more an act of will or reception?
Jorue Graham: A mixture of both—although it would seem, in what I've been saying, that
the reception is greater, the conditions created to generate a state of
reception are themselves the source of some artifice and will. So you
create a cage that will summon a bird, just as you are summoning that
bird to bring into view the unbounded.
