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

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.

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

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

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

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

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.