In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

		Name: James Schuyler Type: Poet Nationality: American Birth: November 9, 1923 Death: April 12, 1991