My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.
Garth GreenwellBulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.
Garth GreenwellI don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to.
Garth GreenwellFor me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Garth Greenwell