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

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 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.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

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.

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

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