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

I am not political as a person.

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

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.