I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.
Shane McCraeI think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.
Shane McCraeI don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.
Shane McCraeI had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.
Shane McCraeI 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.
Shane McCraeI think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering.
Shane McCrae