We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Typography exists to honor content.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.