"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

Poetry,

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

Poetry, People, Painting

"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."

Friendship, Poetry, Friends, World

"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."

Family, Mother, Being, Literary

"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."

Thought,

"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."

Time, Work, Identity, May

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."

Love, Peace, War, Music

"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."

Influence, Writer

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."

Advertising, Deception, Irony, Politicians

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

Writing, Prose

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