Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.