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Five Points, Vol. 6 No. 3

Fall 2002

From Barry Hannah, “So much of writing is hard work, but you don’t want to admit that when you’re younger because you just want to be a flashing talent and be god-struck.”

Five Points, Vol. 6 No. 2

Spring 2002

From Jim Harrison, “We all go up in smoke. I can disappear that quickly.”

Five Points, Vol. 6 No. 1

Fall 2001

From John Hollander, “I don’t think form is the essence of poetry. I think all this other stuff is.”

From David St. John, “I think that one of the great dilemmas of contemporary poetry is that there’s a kind of reliance on reportage. Whether it’s domestic or political, there’s a sense that the illusion of truth, the illusion of a particular journalistic truth necessarily occasions great consequence, and that’s just not so.”