The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

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

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

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

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.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.