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

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

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

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

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.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I am not political as a person.