I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to...
All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my...
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
Everything can change at any moment suddenly and forever.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success failure equilibrium compromise or balance in this continuous rivalry of ideas.