to know Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler—other young poets, I mean.John Ashbery: Oh yes. When we were young, we were our only audience. We would write poems and read them to each other, and in fact, for quite a few years, I didn't really think that anybody else was going to be interested. My first book was not at all successful. I'm talking about the Yale University one, which I think they printed 800 copies of, and it took eight years to run out.
from Guernica: Houses at Night
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