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

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

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

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.