Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

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.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.