I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would prefer to have been in this world and published fewer works than I would publishing the books that would reveal the process of the changes.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Every thing is changing every minute.