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.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

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

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.