The Language Poets Are Writing Only About

Distance Not Only Gives Nostalgia, But Perspective, And Maybe Objectivity.

Pound's Translation Of Chinese Poetry Was Maybe The Most Important Thing I Read. Eliot A Little Bit Later.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.

Alchemy Is The Art Of Far And Near, And I Think Poetry Is Alchemy In That Way. It's Delightful To Distort Size, To See Something That's Tiny As Though It Were Vast.

The Fact That Something Is In A Rhymed Form Or In Blank Verse Will Not Make It Good Poetry.