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

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

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

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

All poetry comes from repetition.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.