We're Into The Era Of Desktop Bureaucracy,

How Much Money You Get, Depends On Lots Of Extraneous Things. It Depends On How Good You Are At Turning Poetry Into A Marketable Product, Which Is Something It Was Never Supposed To Be. That's Why Many People Suppose That The Better The Poet You Are The Lower Your Income Should Be, And That's Probably True.

Every Native North American Text I've Ever Grappled With Has Taught Me Something Important About How To Live On The Continent Where I Was Born.

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.

Essay On Adam" There Are Five Possibilities. One: Adam Fell. Two: He Was Pushed. Three: He Jumped. Four: He Only Looked Over The Edge, And One Look Silenced Him. Five: Nothing Worth Mentioning Happened To Adam. The First, That He Fell, Is Too Simple. The Fourth, Fear, We Have Tried And Found Useless. The Fifth, Nothing Happened, Is Dull. The Choice Is Between: He Jumped Or Was Pushed. And The Difference Between These Is Only An Issue Of Whether The Demons Work From The Inside Out Or From The Outside In: The One Theological Question.

In The Native Literatures Of North America There Aren't Any Novels. Instead, The Major Genre Is Myth. And Myths Are Stories That Are Fundamentally About The World, Not About Human Individuals. A Myth Needn't Include Any Humans At All. If It Does Include Them, They're Usually Minor Characters - Imaginary Humans Sent Out Like Scouts To Report Back On What's Happening In The Mythworld, But Not Central Participants In The Action.