I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think I can gain comfort with by practice. It was a real struggle for me while writing memoir to get past three pages or so. In poems, I can write long poems. But length in prose: no.