Take fortune as it falls, as one adviseth:
Yet Heywood bids me take it as it riseth,
And while I think to do as both do teach,
It falls and riseth quite beside my reach.
“Just as the Beats grew out of the affluence and McCarthyism that followed World War II and Language Poetry grew out of the Vietnam experience, the great literary tendencies of the next one hundred years will be determined in good part by upheavals we can only guess at today.”
Ron Silliman