What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
