Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.