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

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

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

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.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.