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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an... →
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there... →
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the... →
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.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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