The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
My life failed on the very day I was born.
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.