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.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

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

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.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.