It Takes A Long Time To Publish

Maybe There Are Three Or Four Really Good Poets In A Generation.

One Day The Nouns Were Clustered In The Street. An Adjective Walked By, With Her Dark Beauty. The Nouns Were Struck, Moved, Changed. The Next Day A Verb Drove Up, And Created The Sentence.

I Thought, 'there Are A Lot Of Poets Who Have The Courage To Look Into The Abyss, But There Are Very Few Who Have The Courage To Look Happiness In The Face And Write About It,' Which Is What I Wanted To Be Able To Do.

As For Political Poetry, As It's Usually Defined, It Seems There's Very Little Good Political Poetry.

I Never Thought Of Myself As A New York Poet Or As An American Poet.