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.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

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

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.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

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