Or: I don't know, no, not, nothing, never,
( no more " what I meant to say was") no no. Not ever.
( a talk on I don't know )
Marie Howe is the Poet Laureate of New York State; author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series; editor, with Michael Klein, of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic; author of What the Living Do; recipient of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Mary Ingram Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, and the Guggenheim. Sarah Lawrence, 1993–