If There's One Thing I

My Assignment Is What Every Writer's Assignment Is: Tell The Truth Of His Own Time.

The Text Is Merely One Of The Contexts Of A Piece Of Literature, Its Lexical Or Verbal One, No More Or Less Important Than The Sociological, Psychological, Historical, Anthropological Or Generic.

I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance For Detached Chronicling And Cool Analysis.

Anybody In The Next Centuries Wanting To Know What It Was Like To Be A Poet In The Middle Of The 20th Century Should Read Kaddish.

All Good Criticism Should Be Judged The Way Art Is. You Shouldn't Read It The Way You Read History Or Science.