I Hardly Remember How I Started To

While I've Had A Great Distaste For What's Usually Called Song In Modern Poetry Or For What's Usually Called Music, I Really Don't Think Of Speech As So Far From Song.

I Had No Idea Where These Kids At A Small Private College In The San Fernando Valley Were Coming From, Why They Were Coming To Hear Me, Or What They Needed To Know.

I Can Manage A Prose Format As Long As I Keep Closer To Laurence Sterne Than To Henry James.

I Hardly Remember How I Started To Write Poetry. It's Hard To Imagine What I Thought Poetry Could Do.

I Was Very Committed To The Process Of Composing, Working At Poems, Putting Things Together And Taking Them Apart Like Some Kind Of Experimental Filmmaker.