My Father Died When I Was Five,

Listen To These Young Poets And You'll Discover The Voice Of The Present And Hear The Voice Of The Future Before The Future Is Even Here.

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

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.

My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of Talking To Somebody. I Suppose To Myself.