Uncle Sam was a cold uncle with a mean soul and a cruel spirit. (p219) - Linda Hogan

(The childishness of that attitude - that insistence on "mine" and "my way only" - is rather frightening.) Right. Torture and genocide are based on such small words as those.

I discovered Kenneth Rexroth and I was really excited about him. It was the first contemporary poetry I read, and it was alive for me. It became a kind of model for how I wanted to write.

It is more about murder and theft, the true stories of what happened during the Oklahoma oil boom.