Occupation: Memoirist Birth: March 12, 1946
poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception..
Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself..
A careful first draft is a failed first draft.
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave….
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, ju….
Here, in memory, we live and die..
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoi….
Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story..
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory..