As For Political Poetry, As

I've Had Trouble With Criticism, I Guess. It's Hard To Know What Role Criticism Plays In Either Encouraging Poets Or In Getting Other People To Read Them.

Poetry Is A Deliberate Attempt To Make Language Suggestive And Imprecise.

Politics Is There The Way Men And Women Are There, The Way The Atlantic Ocean Is There. Sometimes I've Written About Politics Specifically, I Mean About Politics As It's Understood On Television And In Newspapers.

All Poetry Comes From Repetition.

It's A Well Known Thing That Ordinary Perceptions Can Have A Strange Aspect When One Is Travelling.