Repetition Makes Us Feel Secure And Variation

Longing, We Say, Because Desire Is Full Of Endless Distances.

I Think That Were I In The Middle Of An Obsession To Write About, Say, Sudden Oak Death In California Or My Grandchildren Or Time And Memory And How They Look When You Get To Be In Your Sixties, And I Thought, "well, Yes But People Are Dying Every Day In Baghdad," I Wouldn't Feel Guilty About Not Writing About Baghdad If I Didn't Have Any Good Ideas About How To Write About It.

All The New Thinking Is About Loss. In This It Resembles All The Old Thinking

Such Tenderness, Those Afternoons And Evenings, Saying Blackberry, Blackberry, Blackberry.

You Only Had Widespread Literacy And Books That People Could Afford In The Middle Of The 19th Century. Did More People Read Poetry At The Turn Of The 20th Century When There Were About Fifty Million People?