I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. And “Angel in the Forest,” examining the nineteenth-century communities of Father George Rapp and Robert Owen’s socialist experiment in New Harmony, Indiana, is about abandoned utopias. My early volumes of poetry, “Prismatic Ground” and “Moderate Fable,” also express a sense of loss. The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was five years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. Do these long intervals represent major changes in the direction of your thought? Although your two books of poetry “Prismatic Ground” and “Moderate Fable” were published a few years apart, there were twenty years between “Angel in the Forest” and “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” There will be about twenty-five years between “Miss MacIntosh” and your forthcoming work on Eugene Debs. I: You have been writing for more than half a century. From “The Review of Contemporary Fiction,” Spring 2003, Vol.
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