While I don`t satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I`m terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that`s true about many of us.
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare`s sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare`s sonnets.
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn`t write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
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With my creative writing students, I`ve taught literature more than I`ve taught writing courses`I just hope to make them better.
