“My former attitude was the luxury of a sheltered child who got to his twenties without ever doubting the stability (and, smugly, I know, the superiority) of his country, without disaster. As it did to so many of my generation, 9/11 broke a stupor that should have broken well before. It seems impossible to me that people who weren't alive then will soon be getting their driver's licenses. When I zoom out, much of this country's history since that day seems a fitful, graceless descent to overseas violence and domestic paranoia. Terrorism works.” AmericaChangeUnited StatesViolenceTerrorismPatriotismSeptember 11Paranoia9 11 Book:Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now Source: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now
“All poets are liars.' And they are, aren't they? Inventors of myths and stories, conjurers of emotions, and sometimes cynical pluckers of heartstrings.” PoetryWritersPoets Book:Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now Source: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now