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

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.

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

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

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.