Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

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

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

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I am not political as a person.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.