"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

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"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

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"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."

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"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

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"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

Home

"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."

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"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."

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"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."

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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

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"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."

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"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."

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