I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.