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“The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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