Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

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

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

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

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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.