David Duchovny is revealing why he has yet to write his former or current wife a poem, despite penning an entire book of them.
The X Files alum, 65, opened up about the subject while chatting exclusively with Parade ahead of the release of his seventh book and first collection of poetry, About Time: Poems, which hits bookshelves on Tuesday, Sept. 2. He was previously married to Téa Leoni from 1997 to 2014, and he tied the knot with longtime partner Monique Pendleberry earlier this year.
“I would not do that. I would not dedicate [a poem to my partner]. I’ve only ever once dedicated one song, and that was to [actor and comedian] Garry Shandling. It’s on my second album [Every Third Thought],” he says. “But no, I don’t like to call attention in that way because it doesn’t have form. The poem has to work in a world where these things don’t exist, where I don’t exist, where my personal life doesn’t exist. Or else, it’s just kind of a prop that I don’t believe in.”
As for his book, Duchovny tells Parade that the collection of poems explores a wide range of topics, from love and the loss of love to parenting, his own parents and other emotional quandaries.
“Some of these things are quite very old. These are just things that I’ve been writing for 20 or 30 years. I just kind of — I’ll write a poem,” he explains. “There are times when I’m writing poems more than not. I’ve lost a bunch that I’ll never find, that may be good, that I’ve lost and it may be bad, I’m not sure. They represent, really, all the poetry that I’ve been writing over a few decades.”
source: Parade
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