Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.