Nancy Peters

"We're still in a state of shock … We have our "Dump Bush and Cheney" sign in the window, which Lawrence painted himself. We're looking forward to impeachment or perhaps, indictments for war crimes."

"The mood of the '50s is like today."

"Then we did a book by Geoffrey Rips called "Unamerican Activities," which was a documentation of the subversion of the underground press. That was when the Freedom of Information Act made those files …"

"We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture."

"The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets."

"He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle — a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed."

"Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them."

"During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War."