When poet Jack Gilbert, some time in the 1970's in San Francisco, asked his poetry class, "Who here aspires to write a masterpiece?", not one hand was raised. I, on the other hand, wanted to do just that; after reading Blake's Prophetic Books for the first time, as a naive youth, I said to myself: "Wow I'd like to write one of those " So I tried my best; it took me thirty-three years. The idol of "street language" that entered my art in the 1970's...
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