Poetry is definitely among the best ways to renew capacity for surprise. The few times I've worked at it, it's been like pulling teeth, but it works reliably.
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Not sure how this fits, but writing poetry has become sort of a surprise-generating enterprise for me. I’ve taught myself to start with a minimal seed and write intuitively from that. The result: if I read something I wrote 4-6 weeks ago, I often find it surreally unfamiliar

