Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
