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

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

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

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

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

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

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.