Poets Are Like Steam Valves,

It Is Forbidden To Love Where We Are Not Loved

Well, One Thing I'm Really Interested In, When I'm Writing, Is Being Accurate.

I Did Not Know Him, I Knew My Idea Of Him.

My Poems - I Don't Even Like The Sound Of That, In A Way. Not That Anyone Else Wrote Them. But We Know That Only People Who Are Really Close To Us Care About Our Personal Experience.

The Decision For Me Was Whether To Have 'the Father' Be A Book That Told A Story - From The Point Of View Of This Speaker, The Daughter - Without, As In The Earlier Books, Then Having A Section On Something Else And A Section On Something Else.