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“Basil Bunting Home Page at EPC, Buffalo”

“Basil Bunting Poetry Centre”

“At Briggflatts Meetinghouse recording read by the author”

“Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.”

“All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.”

“Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.”