Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.