Typography Exists To Honor Content.

Many Intellectual Heroes In The European Tradition Seem To Find The Great Outdoors A Chilling Prospect - And Its Literary Analogue, The Mythworld, Equally Chilling. As If A World In Which Humans Have No Leverage, And Might Not Be Present At All, Couldn't Be Interesting To Humans.

Typographic Style Is Founded Not On Any One Technology Of Typesetting Or Printing, But On The Primitive Yet Subtle Craft Of Writing.

If You Divide The World Into Them And Us, And History Into Ours And Theirs, Or If You Think Of History As Something Only You And Your Affiliates Possess, Then No Matter What You Know, No Matter How Noble Your Intentions, You Have Taken One Step Toward The Destruction Of The World.

My Own View Is That Violence Is A Part Of Classical Haida Literature - And Of Every Mythology Everywhere, So Far As I Can Tell - Because It's Part Of Life Itself. In The World Of The Hamburger Stand And The Supermarket, Or The Vegan Café And The Ashram, You Might Try To Tell Yourself It's Possible To Be Nonviolent. In A Hunting And Gathering Society, Violence Is More Difficult To Hide.

A Lot Of Poems Seem, In Some Sense, To Pull The Outside World Into The Interior. They Aren't Perhaps Emotion Recollected In Tranquillity But Perception Recollected In Interiority.