In The Process Of Simplifying Oneself, One

Radio Is Such A Perfect Medium For The Transmission Of Poetry, Primarily Because There Just Is The Voice, There's No Visual Distraction.

I Was Influenced By The Beats Because I Actually Just Began To Commit Adolescence Around 1955, When "howl" And Rebel Without A Cause And A Lot Of Other New Things Were Popping Up. (again I'm Trying To Give You A Finite Version Of This Career.) And Then I Came Under The Sway Of Wallace Stevens When I Was In College And Graduate School, And Basically Set As A Life Goal The Ambition Of Writing Third-rate Wallace Stevens. I Thought I Would Be Completely Content If I Was Recognized At Some Later Point In My Life As A Third-rate Wallace Stevens.

While The Novelist Is Banging On His Typewriter, The Poet Is Watching A Fly In The Windowpane.

But Tonight, The Lion Of Contentment Has Placed A Warm Heavy Paw On My Chest.

I Sit In The Dark And Wait For A Little Flame To Appear At The End Of My Pencil.