A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.