An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
I was playing catch with the European audience.
ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.