I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
James LaughlinI try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
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 LaughlinI think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
James Laughlin