I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.James Laughlin
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
James Laughlin
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
James Laughlin
Once we've taken on somebody we generally try to stick with them for at least two or three books to see if they will develop, if they will grow.
James Laughlin
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
James Laughlin
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