Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability… - James Laughlin
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability…
- James Laughlin
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. - James Laughlin
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work o… - James Laughlin
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work o…
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this… - James Laughlin
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this…
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, … - James Laughlin
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, …
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. - James Laughlin
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than … - James Laughlin
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than …
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to b… - James Laughlin
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to b…
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. - James Laughlin
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
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