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Forrest Gander Quotes

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

Forrest Gander
Water, Gasoline, Refrain

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

Forrest Gander
Ambition, Acceptance, Enthusiasm
Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander
Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

Forrest Gander
Reading, Character, Feelings

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