I Feel More Helpless With You Than

I Don’t Think We Can Separate Art From Overall Human Dignity And Hope.

The Liar Often Suffers From Amnesia. Amnesia Is The Silence Of The Unconscious.

The Unconscious Wants Truth. It Ceases To Speak To Those Who Want Something Else More Than Truth.

The Words Are Purposes./the Words Are Maps./i Came To See The Damage That Was Done/and The Treasures That Prevail.

There's Been Real Hostility Toward Political Poetry In The U.s., Hostility Or, At Best, Incomprehension. I'm Speaking Of Those Who Have Institutional Power Over What Gets Published, Over Grants Andprizes And Reviewing. Most Of Them, Though Not All, Arewhite And Male. But Even As American Society Is Unravelling, Becoming More Violent And Punitive, Wonderful Political Poetshave Been Emerging.