I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

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