Every Native North American Text I've Ever

I Think Of Something Quite Different From A Snapshot. I Know Of A Lot Of Poems, Some Very Fine Ones, That Are Like Snapshots, But I'm More Interested In Poetry That Is Like An Endless Film, Long Stories, Things That Weave Together Many Different Strands, Like A Big Piece Of Cloth, Not Like A Photograph.

Stories Are The Reproductive Organs Of Language.

A Lot Of Poems Seem, In Some Sense, To Pull The Outside World Into The Interior. They Aren't Perhaps Emotion Recollected In Tranquillity But Perception Recollected In Interiority.

With Type As With Philosophy, Music And Food, It Is Better To Have A Little Of The Best Than To Be Swamped With The Derivative, The Careless, The Routine.

Anxiety Projection Can And Does Occur - In Myth, In Music, In Fiction, And In The Doctor's Office Too. That Doesn't Make It The Basis Of Everything.