I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.