It Seems To Me The

Your Average Pop Song Or Film Is A Very Sophisticated Item, With Very Sophisticated Ways Of Listening And Viewing That We Have Not Really Consciously Developed Over The Years - Because We Were Having Such A Good Time

Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How People Are Going To Read.

One Will Never Again Look At A Birch Tree, After The Robert Frost Poem, In Exactly The Same Way.

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

What I Try To Do Is To Go Into A Poem - And One Writes Them, Of Course, Poem By Poem - To Go Into Each Poem, First Of All Without Having Any Sense Whatsoever Of Where It's Going To End Up