Sad verses Happy poetry?

[rowens]

I don't set out to write something sad. I don't set out to be sad either. It's just a general condition, and most of the time poetry is a way of better understanding and dealing with that condition. And what I use in poetry is the ritual quality, of searching and making. Rather than saying, "Look at how sad I'm capable of being", I want to try to do something about it, or at least do something with it.