Quotes from Richard Grossman

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.