Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.