The Body Is The One Thing You

A Poet Trains Himself To Stand Out In A Storm And Be Struck By Lightning. If He Is Lucky Enough To Be Struck Six Times, He Becomes Immortal. Randall Jarrell Said It And He's Right.

You Are Bound, My Hunch Is, To Make It Just Fine.

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 New York Quarterly Is An Amazing, Intelligent, Crazy, Creative, Strange, And Indispensable Magazine.

What I Want Is To Be Willing To Fail Rather Than Stagnate.