Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.