There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
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