The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.