You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

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.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.