Peter Gizzi quotes:

The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

So often we measure by what is false. We should measure by what is barely legible barely in our dailiness. It is the invisible that doesn't lie the invisible through which we see ourselves finally on a back street in the world.