"The vision was met with in every air"
Levine, Jacob, Ferlinghetti, Bronk, Lauterbach, Howe, Rimbaud
Philip Levine:
Let me give you a little piece of advice about publishing. If you can live without publishing—that is if you don't have a job that depends upon publishing—then just wait as long as you can. Wait as long as possible... until you're thirty, thirty-five. And don't publish all that crap, and don't get involved in that whole world of connections and ass-kissing, networking and all that shit. Stay away from it. Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
Max Jacob (trans. William Kulik):
Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
William Bronk:
Ann Lauterbach:
Susan Howe:
Arthur Rimbaud (trans. Louise Varèse):
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