Craft is a synthesis: thought in the service of understanding. Think hard in order to open to understanding: that is craft K. was hungrily made. K. is an American creation. K. cannot recommend realism. K. cannot recommend surrealism. K. cannot recommend plain speech. K. cannot recommend free association. K. can recommend song: The tug of the past. Don't let go so fast of what you're haunted by— It'll last till it lasts. The former things pass away Craft will take us through this wood.
From The Cold War, published by Sarabande Books. Copyright © 2011 by Kathleen Ossip. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.