..books Look As If They Contain Knowledge,

Poets Seem To Write More Easily About Love Than Prose Writers. For A Start, They Own That Flexible ‘i’…. Then Again, Poets Seem Able To Turn Bad Love – Selfish, Shitty Love – Into Good Love Poetry. Prose Writers Lack This Power Of Admirable, Dishonest Transformation. We Can Only Turn Bad Love Into Prose About Bad Love. So We Are Envious (and Slightly Distrustful) When Poets Talk To Us Of Love.

One Of The Troubles Is This: The Heart Isn't Heart-shaped.

Start With The Notion That Yours Is The Sole Responsibility Unless There's Powerful Evidence To The Contrary

We Live, We Die, We Are Remembered, We Are Forgotten.

In 1980, I Published My First Novel, In The Usual Swirl Of Unjustified Hope And Justified Anxiety.