I've devoted a lot of my life to poetry. Reading it, writing it, writing about it. In her wonderful novel, "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," Anne Tyler writes, "There ought to be a whole separate language for truth."
I think there is such a language--the language of poetry. Poems create the miracle of connecting our inner lives. We live in a world where the language of advertising, commerce, and politics are so filled with falseness, deception, and manipulation, that we have an absolute longing to hear words spoken from the heart, with clarity, precision, and authenticity.
Editor,
Poetry International, SDSU Press
Containing
Multitudes: Poetry in the United States Since 1950
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An excerpt from Containing Multitudes
Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America
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Selections from Men of Our Time
Meditation
on a Line by Sylvia Plath
The Living Last Minute Adjustments a chap book,
(San Diego: Gorilla Press, 1985)
"Life as a Two Act Play (with Intermission),"
broadside, (Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press, 1989)
Novel, a poem (Greenhouse Review Press,
1993)
Act 3 and Other Poems (a chapbook) (San
Diego: Laterthanever Press, 1994)
Other poems in New York Quarterly, Antennae,
Pacific Review, Paragraph, Bogg, Poetry East, Onthebus, Pearl, Fiction International,
Hawai'i Review, the Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, San Diego Writer's Monthly
and other periodicals
Poems anthologized in Men of Our Time,
Border Voices 1 & 2, Stand Up Poetry, American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth
Century
The Internet Poetry Archive at the University of North Carolina
Academy
of American Poets Home Page
Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY, Buffalo)
Nanette's Guide to Poetry on the Internet