You write in order to change the world… if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
You write in order to change the world… if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
“To be an ‘American poet’ is a choice, one that I personally made three decades ago when I pondered the alternatives between leaving a United States that was then engaging in an openly imperialist war in Indochina and staying, which meant resisting the draft and risking imprisonment.
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Ron Silliman