In The Best Fiction, The Language Itself

The Idea Of Avant-garde Art Is A Very Suspicious Thing To Me, The Idea That Poetry Is New And It Keeps Being New The Way Chevrolets Every Year Are New.

Teaching Writing Over The Years Intrudes On Your Own Writing In Important Ways, Taking Away Some Of The Excitement Of Poetry.

The Black Mountain Poet I Like Most Is The Early Creeley. Those Early Poems Seem Very Lyrical And Very Traditional, With A Lot Of Voice And Character.

One Of The Most Powerful Devices Is To Distort Time, To Go From Human Time To Atomic Time, Geologic Time. Sometimes You Can Actually Accomplish That, With One Unexpected Word Choice.

With Prose You Can Incorporate More Details, Develop Scenes, Sustain The Tension In A Special Way. Prose Has Its Own Speed.