A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.