I Hardly Remember How I Started To

My Way Of Thinking Is Very Particular And Concrete. It Doesn't Follow A Continuous Path.

When You Grow Up In A Family Of Languages, You Develop A Kind Of Casual Fluency, So That Languages, Though Differently Colored, All Seem Transparent To Experience.

I Am Quite Unsatisfied By The Distinctions Between The Oral And Literate.

I Hardly Remember How I Started To Write Poetry. It's Hard To Imagine What I Thought Poetry Could Do.

I Had No Idea Where These Kids At A Small Private College In The San Fernando Valley Were Coming From, Why They Were Coming To Hear Me, Or What They Needed To Know.