Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 07:28:52 -0500

From: Robert Kelly kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU

Subject: Re: Words



On Lance's noble peroration:



years ago at Cal Tech I invited the poet Edward Dorn to read --- at that time

from his then developing epic "Gunslinger." At the end of a difficult and

wonderful hour, among the questions was one asked slyly, almost smarmily, by

one of the techies: "Mr Dorn, what do you believe in?" (It sounded as if

the questioner implied, oh poets, they believe in gods and ghosts...). Dorn

thought quietly for one of the loveliest ten seconds in the history of

public art, then answered softly "Words." And said no more.



rk