I Started Listening To Music When I

I Believed Even Then That If I Could Transform My Experience Into Poetry I Would Give It The Value And Dignity It Did Not Begin To Possess On Its Own. I Thought Too That If I Could Write About It I Could Come To Understand It; I Believed That If I Could Understand My Life—or At Least The Part My Work Played In It—i Could Embrace It With Some Degree Of Joy, An Element Conspicuously Missing From My Life.

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.

But I'm Too Old To Be Written About As A Young Poet.

You Have Begun To Separate The Dark From The Dark.

The Irony Is, Going To Work Every Day Became The Subject Of Probably My Best Poetry.