We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
James LaughlinI often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.
James LaughlinI think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
James LaughlinEvery now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
James Laughlin