Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
