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• Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from…
• I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word…
• I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.
• I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new…
• We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will…
• I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take…
• I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the…
• Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,…

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