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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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