Life at these intensities clearly became “scenes”; but the great thing, the immense illumination, was that we could make them or not as we chose.
Life at these intensities clearly became “scenes”; but the great thing, the immense illumination, was that we could make them or not as we chose.
“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