Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.