As charming as old people are, one doesn't want to have a 75-year-old baby. One wants to make something new.
Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.
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.
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.