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The Language Poets Are Writing Only About Language Itself. The Ashbery Poets Are Writing Only About Poetry Itself. That Seems To Me A Kind Of Dead End.

If People Associate Me With A Region, That's Fine With Me.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.

Distance Not Only Gives Nostalgia, But Perspective, And Maybe Objectivity.

I Seem To Keep Returning To My Father In Poems Because His Personality Was So Extreme, So Driven. He Did Everything To Excess.