You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
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.