One Joins The Movement In

The Painter Saw What Was, An Alternate Candor And Secrecy Inside The Skin.

I Was Much Influenced By Jean-paul Sartre.

I Was At A Benefit For Some Imprisoned Students In The '60s At San Francisco State, And There Were Lots Of Poets Reading For The Benefit: One Was Elizabeth Bishop.

When I First Started Teaching At Berkeley In 1958, I Could Not Announce That I Was Gay To Anybody, Though Probably Quite A Few Of My Fellow Teachers Knew.

We Tend To Put Poems Into Factions. And It Restricts Our Reading.