The Blankness is Your Mother: Robert Kelly and Fukushima
Modern poetry is a product of the same culture that made Fat Man and Little Boy possible. Not even just possible, but inevitable. Nuclear bombs can only exist in the same world as Robert Kelly’s poems, mega-churches, and David Lynch movies. I just hope that the most beautiful and humane parts of the whole thing have as long a half-life as the most radioactive ones.
Robert Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century – William Patterson
I knew Heinlein was carrying around contradictions. But it wasn’t until I began to read William Patterson’s biography that I realized how important those contradictions were in expressing the Geist of an entire generation.
Hafez, arguably Iran’s most important poet, has had his works illustrated by Jila Peacock in the grand tradition of Islamic calligraphy.