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.

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.

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