I Want You To Hear A New

William Packard Surely Must Be One Of The Great Editors Of Our Time.

He Can't Imagine The Result Of The Mission Because He Never Saw It.

We've Always Had A Tradition In America Of Hounding Our Artists To Death. Look At The List Of Our Great Artists, You See A Continual History Of Defeat, Frustration, Poverty, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction. The Best Poets Of My Generation Are All Suicides.

I Think Ginsberg Has Done More Harm To The Craft That I Honor And Live By Than Anybody Else By Reducing It To A Kind Of Mean That Enables The Most Dubious Practitioners To Claim They Are Poets Because They Think, If The Kind Of Thing Ginsberg Does Is Poetry, I Can Do That.

The True Feeling Of Sex Is That Of A Deep Intimacy, But Above All Of A Deep Complicity.