Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

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My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

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