Making Art In America Is About Saving

A Poem Is An Instant Of Lucidity In Which The Entire Organism Participates.

If I Believe In Anything, It Is In The Dark Night Of The Soul. Awe Is My Religion, And Mystery Is Its Church.

Making Art In America Is About Saving One's Soul.

The Religion Of The Short Poem, In Every Age And In Every Literature, Has A Single Commandment: Less Is Always More. The Short Poem Rejects Preamble And Summary. It's About All And Everything, The Metaphysics Of A Few Words Surrounded By Much Silence. …the Short Poem Is A Match Flaring Up In A Dark Universe.

Poems Are Other People's Snapshots In Which We See Our Own Lives.