Guiding you down the hallway to his office, past rooms filled with neat stacks of manuscripts and shelves of the hundreds of books he has published and kept in print for two decades, he speaks with the zeal of a man on a mission. I want people to grapple with different minds and different ideas and, most important, with the language itself. Language is the way we all have meaning. If our culture can't keep language alive, the culture will become empty. We won't think of new ideas, and the less adept we'll be at dealing with the world and all its complications.
Every book is transformative.
They're like human beings. Literature takes you into someone's mind. When you enter their language, you rethink your values and ideas. Before long, they found themselves full-fledged publishers. Only then can the miracle happen, can the poet and reader get carried away.