Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.