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

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

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