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

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.

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.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.