Status Updates From Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

“A poet could not write a poem in order to earn a place in literary history.... He writes because he has a poem to write, he knows how, the work pleases him, and he has forgotten all else.” (195)

“A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility.” (240)

An author recommended by a like-minded Kentuckian. I like his prose a lot more than his poetry so far.