"I became a writer when I began to take it seriously."

"I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way."

"The forms often loop back on themselves... circling around on an idea in order to examine it more fully."

"I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live."

"I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out w…"

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"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"