I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
When I was in the war I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
