The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare