I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Tarset: Bloodaxe 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1974; London: Oxford University Press 1974.

Anne Stevenson (born January 3 1933) is an American-British poet and writer.