I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that al...
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are...