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David Duchovny has a new book of poetry out, About Time

The actor, writer and singer-songwriter has released seven volumes of written work, but this is his first published poetic foray

He discusses the similarities and differences between the various forms of writing and what he's learned along the way

David Duchovny has been writing poetry since high school — and now he's collected a volume of his poetic musings into About Time , out now from Akashic Books. Acclaimed The Liars Club author Mary Karr called it "a helluva book of poems," but Duchovny is more modest.

"I'm just trying to ponder [things] from my particular point of view at that moment, and get to the heart of something," he tells PEOPLE. That's what a poem is to me: I've got this feeling, it's around

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