Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

I love Hindi films.