This personal horror gave warrior John Trudell a new life as a writer. The politics had served its purpose, and I had a political identity then, but I saw that our expression has to come from our culture and our art. John Trudell began to write, in a manner as fearless and uncompromising as had been his political stance. I won't say I started writing out of love. When I started out to write, I did not want to explode.
Nobody knows what it means.
I think love is a word that should never be used by itself. Caring is the feeling and love is the emotion. I have not figured out how to communicate the distinction. Maybe that's the role of poetry. Revered elder poet Jerome Rothenberg is the author of Khurbn , the great poem about the emotional legacy of the Nazi Holocaust.