"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

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"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."

Time

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

God

"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

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"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."

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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

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"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

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"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

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