And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
I just didn't want to shoot other people.
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
