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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual th

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

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There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So its a very close relationship. We can do that because were so small. – James Laughlin

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