Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Write the poem only you can write.