To the degree that science fiction has anything to do with the future, it describes the present as accurately as possible and makes its bet on that.
“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