I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.