"One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed."

You may also like:

• 

  Amiri Baraka
  Writer

• 

  Charles Olson
  Poet

• 

  Denise Levertov
  Poet

• 

  Jack Spicer
  Poet

• 

  John Wieners
  Poet

• 

  Michael McClure
  Poet

• 

  Philip Whalen
  Poet

• 

  Robert Creeley
  Poet

• 

  Ted Berrigan
  Poet