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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to… (read more)

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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

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I write what's given me to write.

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