American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.