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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 29th, 1947

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