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There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

I Still Believe In This Country, That It Can Fulfill The Destiny Blake And Whitman Envisioned. I Still Believe In American Poetry.

I Listen To Jazz About Three Hours A Day. I Love Louis Armstrong.

No One Can Write Like Vallejo And Not Sound Like A Fraud. He's Just Too Much Himself And Not You.

I Have A Sense That Many Americans, Especially Those Like Me With European Or Foreign Parents, Feel They Have To Invent Their Families Just As They Have To Invent Themselves.