Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.