We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.