I 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.

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

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.

Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of Confessionalism, beyond psychoanalysis, is a very actual fall from grace. And, at least in America, people of color never occupy that position of grace the way that white people do. So I think that in some very actual ways the confessional mode, strictly speaking, is not possible for non-white writers.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

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.