Theodore Ardono's Great Dilemma

I feel the need not simply to speak as a writer, but to listen to other people. And by that, i mean i need to listen to people who have suffered enough to come from a people that that hate us. In some ways, as other people have said, we americans are now joining the world. This is our first and deepest act, and most symbolic act of terrorism. We want to be able to think this through, feel this through, think it through, listen it through. It's been in the mind of all writers since the end of the second real war, after auschwitz, to write poetry is barbaric. Blasphemous does no good at all