If People Associate Me With A Region,

You Have To Really Dive Deep Back Into Yourself And Get Rid Of So Much Modern Analytical Categorization. It's One Of The Great Things Poetry Does.

The Young People Have Mtv And Rock And Roll. Why Would They Go To Read Poetry? Poetry Belongs To The Stone Age. It Awakens In Us Perceptions That Go Back To Those Times.

Part Of What We Love About Poetry Is The Fact That It Seems Ancient, That It Has An Authority Of Ancient Language And Ancient Form, And That It's Timeless, That It Reaches Back.

I Considered Going To Film School; I Took A Course In Film And Was Very Interested In Filmmaking As Well As Film Writing.

Pound's Translation Of Chinese Poetry Was Maybe The Most Important Thing I Read. Eliot A Little Bit Later.