“I started working in a tightly constrained form because I wanted to write about a desire to escape limits. But I didn’t want to just write about frustrating limitation, I wanted to live inside limitation in the work and then see how I handled it. I wanted event, not aftermath. Ann Lauterbach points out that the ‘convergence of subject matter with form releases content.’ I’m finding that this form (seven-syllable segments paired in tercets, no punctuation) creates a contentiousness in my use of syntax that forces me to diverge from my more expected trajectories of thought, and thus exposes a content with more contextual resources than I’d had access to.”
—Rusty Morrison