Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A

My Mother Carried On And Supported Us; Her Ambition Had Been To Write Poetry And Songs.

I Have A Sense That Many Americans, Especially Those Like Me With European Or Foreign Parents, Feel They Have To Invent Their Families Just As They Have To Invent Themselves.

I'm Seventy-one Now, So It's Hard To Imagine A Dramatic Change.

How Weightless/ Words Are When Nothing Will Do.

Now I Think Poetry Will Save Nothing From Oblivion, But I Keep Writing About The Ordinary Because For Me It's The Home Of The Extraordinary, The Only Home.