While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.
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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.Thom Gunn
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
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Donald Davie was someone whom I got to know shortly before his death. He was consistently supportive, very kind to me, but he was very against queers.
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I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
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