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.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

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.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.