Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
