The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.