As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

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

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.