Harry Mathews (born February 14, 1930) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. Use this quote
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Use this quote
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. Use this quote
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. Use this quote
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. Use this quote
