Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.