Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

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.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

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

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