Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of

The Women Of The South Have Brought Into American Literature A Unique Mixture Of Domesticity And Grotesquerie.

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.

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

A Poet Is Someone Who Stands Outside In The Rain Hoping To Be Struck By Lightning.

There Are So Many Selves In Everybody, And Just To Explore And Exploit One Is Wrong, Dead Wrong, For The Creative Person.