The Media Have Substituted Themselves

The Bible Belt Is Oral Territory And Therefore Despised By The Literati.

The Genteel Is A Mighty Catafalque Of Service-with-a-smile And Flattering Solicitude Smothering Every Spontaneous Movement Of Thought Or Feeling.

The Reader Is The Content Of Any Poem Or Of The Language He Employs, And In Order To Use Any Of These Forms, He Must Put Them On.

The Tv Generation Is Postliterate And Retribalized. It Seeks By Violence To Scrub The Old Private Image And To Merge In A New Tribal Identity, Like Any Corporate Executive.

The Task Confronting Contemporary Man Is To Live With The Hidden Ground Of His Activities As Familiarly As Our Literate Predecessors Lived With The Figure Minus Ground.