The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.