To Be Precise And Reckless: That Is

Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of Personal Possession Of The World.

We've Always Had A Tradition In America Of Hounding Our Artists To Death. Look At The List Of Our Great Artists, You See A Continual History Of Defeat, Frustration, Poverty, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction. The Best Poets Of My Generation Are All Suicides.

Yet Technique Matters, Even So. God Uses It, For A Buffalo Is Not A Leopard.

William Packard Surely Must Be One Of The Great Editors Of Our Time.

You Are Bound, My Hunch Is, To Make It Just Fine.