I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

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

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.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

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.

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

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.