I Write What's Given Me To Write.

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 Worthy. And Then See What Happens. That's My Advice.

But I'm Too Old To Be Written About As A Young Poet.

I Started Listening To Music When I Wrote When I Had Three Sons At Home.

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 Have To Invent Themselves.

My Mother Carried On And Supported Us; Her Ambition Had Been To Write Poetry And Songs.