I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.