whole lot of people couldn’t quite perceive, which is 
what poets do. But I think this is an 
oversimplification of this particular poet. His 
poetry impacted on us, we loved it , but we said it 
was socio-economic cultural analysis. We tried to 
analyze it and it didn’t stand up. Then we got mad 
at him; we said he was full of baloney. We rejected 
him. Now we look back at him and say he just made 
us think of stuff we would never have thought of 
before. And I think the more that that thinking is 
invested in poetic appetite, the more people are 
going to be able to say he left us with a great 
legacy. In my eulogy at his funeral I said he was a 
pyromaniac of the imagination starting prairie