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David Ignatow
© Gerard Malanga
DAVID IGNATOW
The Art of Poetry No. 13
Interviewed by Gerard Malanga
Issue 76, Fall 1979
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INTERVIEWER
How do you feel about money?

IGNATOW
Well, I’m not a Buddha in the sense of I can sit under a tree for a thousand years. Who can? The climate doesn’t allow for it, anyway. So we need money. We need money for houses and for comforts. To relax.

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