"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

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"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

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"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."

Travel

"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."

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"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."

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"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."

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"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."

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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

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"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."

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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

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