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LF: The radical would say that these large foundations are just as big murderers as the government is. Are they? I figure it is important to lead the kind of where you don't have to take grants from any organization. You have to make it on your own without any help. At any point you can tell them t…

LF: The radical would say that these large foundations are just as big murderers as the government is. Are they? I figure it is important to lead the kind of where you don't have to take grants from any organization. You have to make it on your own without any help. At any point you can tell them t…

LF: It depends on which revolution you are talking about. I mean, the first thing a poet has to do is to live that type of life which doesn't compromise himself. It seems to me that taking government grants and living on them is compromising himself before he even starts writing.

Jean-Jacques Lebel and I had a running argument over the last six weeks while he was staying here. He considers himself a revolutionary, and he proposed that a young poet he met in Berkeley get a $1,000 grant from this foundation. There was a scout in town, Gus Blaisdell, from the University of New…