I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.