In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends of the earth. And I live frequently on the spine of the continent, near the Great Divide. Then there's the side of it being the real energy center for a truly post-postmodernist poetry mind, which is also archaic, because we can still be close to the land.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.