I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
