As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
I think my poetry was very influenced-it seems almost dumb to say it-but it was very influenced by Shakespeare. Very early on I read his plays... and, I don't know, I started speaking in blank verse at a rather early age.