Maybe The Example Of Southern Fiction Writing

I Don't Think The Creative Writing Industry Has Helped American Poetry.

I Did Not Have A Very Literary Background. I Came To Poetry From The Sciences And Mathematics, And Also Through An Interest In Japanese And Chinese Poetry In Translation.

Distance Not Only Gives Nostalgia, But Perspective, And Maybe Objectivity.

Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events, Places.

In The Best Fiction, The Language Itself Can Become Almost Invisible.