I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Country 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… — James Laughlin Beaten 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… — James Laughlin Alternate 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… — James Laughlin Apartment 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… — James Laughlin Books 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… — James Laughlin Authors 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,… — James Laughlin Books 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… — James Laughlin Almost 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… — James Laughlin Ability 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.… — James Laughlin Camps 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… — James Laughlin Add 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… — James Laughlin Books 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… — James Laughlin Important 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… — James Laughlin Book 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… — James Laughlin Beautiful Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Ancient Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,… — James Laughlin Bells Copy Share Image
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some… — James Laughlin Bits 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… — James Laughlin Friendship Copy Share Image
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Age Copy Share Image
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end.… — James Laughlin Concrete Copy Share Image
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as… — James Laughlin Conceit Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Another Copy Share Image
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