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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
I write what's given me to write.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they... →
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me... →
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's... →
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote... →
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