Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.