Ko Un Is A Crucial

Poetry Is A Man Arguing With Himself; Rhetoric Is A Man Arguing With Others.

Such Tenderness, Those Afternoons And Evenings, Saying Blackberry, Blackberry, Blackberry.

All The New Thinking Is About Loss. In This It Resembles All The Old Thinking

Where Politics Is Concerned, I Think Poets Have To Be Pragmatists, Philosophical Pragmatists.

At Some Level, You Have To Be Able To Say, "this Is My Task." It's In Small, Local Ways That You Keep Yourself Alive And Refresh Ideas That Are Always Going Into Dead Abstraction.