You Must Write, And Read,

I've Had To Guess At Her, Sewing Her Skin Together As I Sew Mine, Though With A Different Stitch

I Came To Explore The Wreck.

What I Discerned In The U.s. Was A Convergence Of Poetic Voices Coming From Many Different Rents In The Social Fabric, Many Cultures, Many Tributaries, Which, Together, Make Up The American Poetry Of The Late Twentieth Century.

You Have To Give Your Art Everything You Can - I Don't Mean Only Writing, But Studying Other Poets And Poetics, Thinking, Reading What Poets Have Written Other Than Their Poetry.

We Who Were Loved Will Never Unlive That Crippling Fever.