I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.