Like all poets, my biography begins with my last poem. Each poem is a new birth, not only of a thought, but also of the poet. And the poet's life is read and understood backwards from that moment, for the poem does not so much emerge from the life of the poet as it, in fact, creates that life. The hardest thing about poetry is not finding something about which to write, nor finding the words and structure for expression. The hardest thing about being...
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