I am not political as a person.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

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

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

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

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.