“American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.”
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
