I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

I am not political as a person.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

I'm not a very public person.