Thomas Lynch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.