Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

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.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

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.

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.