If a poem is not memorable there's probably something wrong. One of the...
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences...
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible...
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe...
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor....
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that...
Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that...
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read...
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
