I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go t
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

