We Tend To Put Poems Into Factions.

Many Of My Poems Are Not Sexual.

There Have Been Two Popular Subjects For Poetry In The Last Few Decades: The Vietnam War And Aids, About Both Of Which Almost All Of Us Have Felt Deeply.

I Had Assumed That I Would Age With All My Friends Growing Old Around Me, Dying Off Very Gradually One By One. And Here Was A Plague That Cut Them Off So Early.

I Don't Think Of Sex As A Self-destructive Impulse.

I Work Best In Rhyme And Meter. I Was Most Confident Of Myself In That Way.