Poetry Is, Above All, An

Outrage And Possibility Are In All The Poems We Know.

A Work Of Art Is One Through Which The Consciousness Of The Artist Is Able To Give Its Emotions To Anyone Who Is Prepared To Receive Them.

American Poetry Has Been Part Of A Culture In Conflict....we Are A People Tending Toward Democracy At The Level Of Hope; At Another Level, The Economy Of The Nation, The Empire Of Business Within The Republic, Both Include In Their Basic Premise The Idea Of Perpetual Warfare

The World Is Not Made Of Molecules, The World Is Made Of Stories.

There Is Also, In Any History, The Buried, The Wasted, And The Lost.