I Listen To Jazz About Three Hours

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

If That Voice That You Created That Is Most Alive In The Poem Isn't Carried Throughout The Whole Poem, Then I Destroy Where It's Not There, And I Reconstruct It So That That Voice Is The Dominant Voice In The Poem.

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.

My Father Died When I Was Five, But I Grew Up In A Strong Family.

My Temperament Is Not Geared To That Of A Novelist.