The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.