There is different works with different impacts, I mean what I hope is that I would write a few poems that large in people’s memory. And you know, that is the highest aspiration of the poet.
Some of the prose I have written, some of essays I have written, I know in the sense of change at least American and some European countries, sense of what the role of literature is, the role of poetry is in the society. But, you know, prose I think, and especially critical prose—non-fictional prose, is by its nature almost always a febrile. You change the conversation for a moment, if the essay is still read 10 to 15 years later and I’ve been lucky to have essays that are still read 10 to 15 years later. I mean that is the most you could hope for.
