Be Vigilant, For Nothing One Achieves Lasts

Be Vigilant, For Nothing One Achieves Lasts Forever.

I Came To Poetry Through The Urgent Need To Denounce Injustice, Exploitation, Humiliation. I Know That's Not Enough To Change The World. But To Remain Silent Would Have Been A Kind Of Intolerable Complicity.

I Read A Poem Every Night, As Others Read A Prayer.

In The 70s I Was In Exile; Every Time I Went Back I Wondered If They'd Take My Passport Away.

I Write About Wounds, The Eternal Treasons Of Life. It's Not Very Funny, But It's Sincere. My Commitment Is To Sincerity.