“He gave her class. She gave him… —Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astai… He gave her money. She gave him h… He gave her tips on “aggressive gr… and a little statue of eros.

If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he’d be teaching at a small college in the Pacific… and attending the annual conventio…

(July 15) We know who the guards are in those POW movies with brutal

The sky was a midnight blue velvet cloth draping a birdcage and no moon but the breeze was whistling and the sound of a car

We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, more amber beer than the frat boys can drink…

The wonderful thing about being with you in this hotel lift in London full of people is that none

What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go Cedeno singles steals second Mora… they pull off a double steal

Some people find out they are Jew… They can’t believe it. Thy had always hated Jews. As children they had roamed in gan… neighborhood, looking for Jews.

As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a subject that fascinates me usually, but today is not as

In Rotterdam I’m going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. It’s worth

Christmas defeated Chanukah once again last night by a margin of three billion dolla… or so, but every time I hear a Yiddish word like bupkes

There comes a time when the story… different stories and soon after t… retreats to the cave of a solitary… metropolis where no one remembers… whic is, of course, a sign of its…

No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when the radio shuts itself off in the middle of

He woke up in New York City on V… Speeding. The body in the booth n… Was gone. He had bought her a swe… Said her life wasn’t working he lo… You’re all bent out of shape, accu…

The longer I stare the lovelier you look in my eyes (so made such mirrors and spies) and I’m not don… yet as I enumerate the virtues of your smile, gracious in defeat,