"As a prosewriter of the longbook, I go off into the past, the future, the imagined world. The Poet..."

"As a prosewriter of the longbook, I go off into the past, the future, the imagined world. The Poet alights in the right-now time, and stays in the special/ordinary moments. If I were to make an hour for poetry every day, I would change my life."

- Maxine Hong Kingston, To Be the Poet