Making of a Poem: Michael Bazzett on "Autobiography of a Poet" - The Paris Review

For our series Making of a Poem, we're asking some poets to dissect the poems they've published in our pages.Michael Bazzett's "Autobiography of a Poet" appears in our Spring issue, no.243.How did this poem start for you?Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase, or something else?It was a phrase.

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