If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.