I Don’t Believe That A Reviewer Or

I Think Ginsberg Has Done More Harm To The Craft That I Honor And Live By Than Anybody Else By Reducing It To A Kind Of Mean That Enables The Most Dubious Practitioners To Claim They Are Poets Because They Think, If The Kind Of Thing Ginsberg Does Is Poetry, I Can Do That.

The Body Is The One Thing You Can't Fake; It's Just Got To Be There.

To Have Guilt You've Got To Earn Guilt, But Sometimes When You Earn It, You Don't Feel The Guilt You Ought To Have. And That's What The Firebombing Is About.

There Are So Many Selves In Everybody, And Just To Explore And Exploit One Is Wrong, Dead Wrong, For The Creative Person.

A Poet Is Someone Who Stands Outside In The Rain Hoping To Be Struck By Lightning.