“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.”

“Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 62
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)

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