Occupation: Poet Birth: August 3, 1937
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American trad….
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way..
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but ….
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance..