Maybe There Are Three Or Four Really

Poetry, Which Is Written While No One Is Looking, Is Meant To Be Looked At For All Time.

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

I'm A Writer Who Likes To Be Influenced.

I Love Painting And Music, Of Course. I Don't Know Nearly As Much About Them As I Know About Poetry. I've Certainly Been Influenced By Fiction. I Was Overwhelmed By War And Peace When I Read It, And I Didn't Read It Until I Was In My Late 20s.