Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

In Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're minimal. The sex is not graphic in the way that DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover has all these graphic passages.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.