David Duchovny<\/a> uses poetry to try and nail down the \u201cmystery\u201d of his feelings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
David Duchovny uses poetry to try and nail down the \u2018mystery\u2019 of his feelings<\/p>\n
The 65-year-old actor is best known for playing Fox Mulder in The X-Files, but has published seven books since 2015, including novels such as Truly Like Lightning and Miss Subways \u2013 and his latest tome, About Time, marks his first foray into published poems.<\/p>\n
David told People about the motivation behind the project: \u201cI\u2019m just trying to ponder from my particular point of view at that moment, and get to the heart of something. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what a poem is to me: I\u2019ve got this feeling, it\u2019s around this thing, or this event, or this person, and now I want to put that in a form that makes sense in some way, you know, deal with this mystery of this feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acclaimed poet and memoirist Mary Karr has described David\u2019s debut poetry collection as \u201ca helluva book of poems\u201d. <\/p>\n
\nDavid added the project grew slowly as he revisited his notebooks and drawers filled with earlier work. <\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cIt was interesting to go back through all the drawers and notebooks and files and find poems that I\u2019d forgotten I\u2019d written, some of them made it in (to the book) and some of them should never have been written.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDavid also explained he views poetry as an honest attempt to capture fleeting emotions.<\/p>\n
\nHe added: \u201cYou do the best that you can in the moment that you\u2019re doing it. And that\u2019s both great and horrible, because you don\u2019t have the long perspective, so you just have what you\u2019re immersed in, and there\u2019s a certain kind of joy in that, in that blindness. A certain kind of honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe collection features poems ranging from single-line fragments to longer ruminations. <\/p>\n
\nDavid said he hoped readers would approach the book as they might a gallery visit. <\/p>\n
\nHe went on: \u201cIt\u2019s like when I go to any great museum. I can\u2019t see all the paintings, you know? Even though I might want to, because I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll be back, it\u2019s like diminishing returns after a while. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cYou just get kind of overwhelmed and overstimulated, so I think poems are like that, because they\u2019re dense like painting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nComparing poetry to other forms of writing, he said: \u201cNovels are a more straightforward journey: there\u2019s a beginning, a middle and an end. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cBut poems are more about interrogating a feeling. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cScripts are more like poems than you would think, because they\u2019re less like novels, because there\u2019s not a lot of descriptive writing. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere\u2019s some descriptive writing, but not pretty descriptive writing. It can be more like writing poetry than not.\u201d<\/p>\n
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