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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

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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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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

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

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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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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.

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Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1925

Died: July 6th, 2002

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