Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousn...
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it`s still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
Our literature is in great shape.
