Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.