The thing that gets clearer and clearer as you get older is to keep developing. As long as they don’t like what you’re doing now, they’ll love it in 20 years time, just the way they’re now loving what you did 20 years ago.
“Class is the great hidden identifier in American life. Since I tend to focus my poetry on that which is ‘hidden in plain view,’ class has probably been foregrounded in my work and my sensitivity to it has been increased as a result of being a poet.
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Ron Silliman