Creative Quotations from . . . Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed.
The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets. I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.