When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.