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- The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this…
- She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
- When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the…
- I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
- I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front…
- Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;…
- Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
- I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them…
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