“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.” IfsRealityImaginationSpaceSecretCitiesCuttingNew YorkPoetCreatingTraditionMythDisappearLondonParisRomeSailFloatsMoscowLeningrad Author:Nina Berberova
“I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.” IfsWritingWonderWifeNew YorkPoetReaderSmartIdealsMy WifeVery Smart Author:Kenneth Koch
“He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.” GuyFiguresNew YorkPoetMusicianBuddhistEstablishmentTestamentOld Testament Author:Tom Hayden
“There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.” PeopleStillsYoungBehindsAttentionSawsNew YorkPoetPaidExtraordinaryAwardsYaleLegionAntonioPortlandGina Author:Sandra Cisneros