On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the wr….

The maimings of love are endlessly funny..

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all o….

What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesit….

What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long….

Art cannot save anybody from anything..

It is no wonder lesbians love women..

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to b….

Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of ….

They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of….

…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake….