Translation Is An Interestingly Different Way To

Translation Makes Me Look At How A Poem Is Put Together In A Different Way, Without The Personal Investment Of The Poem I'm Writing Myself, But Equally Closely Technically.

The Pull Between Sound And Syntax Creates A Kind Of Musical Tension In The Language That Interests Me.

You Are Almost Not Free, If You Are Teaching A Group Of Graduate Students, To Become Friends With One Of Them. I Don't Mean Anything Erotically Charged, Just A Friendship.

Given The Devaluation Of Literature And Of The Study Of Foreign Languages Per Se In The United States, As Well As The Preponderance Of Theory Over Text In Graduate Literature Studies, Creative Writing Programs Keep Literature Courses Populated.

Of The Individual Poems, Some Are More Lyric And Some Are More Descriptive Or Narrative. Each Poem Is Fixed In A Moment. All Those Moments Written Or Read Together Take On The Movement And Architecture Of A Narrative.