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My mother very bravely put me into rehab two weeks after my father died.
Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur Waley's translations and Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, who have been lifelong influences on me. My father read Keats to me, and then he read more Keats while I was lying on the sofa struggling with asthma.