I Say, Father, The Years Have Brought

The Irony Is, Going To Work Every Day Became The Subject Of Probably My Best Poetry.

But Most Commonly, It's One Poem That I Work On With A Lot Of Intensity.

You Have To Follow Where The Poem Leads. And It Will Surprise You. It Will Say Things You Didn't Expect To Say. And You Look At The Poem And You Realize, 'that Is Truly What I Felt.' That Is Truly What I Saw.

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 From Being A Poet Is The Fact That I'm Doing This Crummy Work.

My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of Talking To Somebody. I Suppose To Myself.