I have a plot, but not much happens.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.