The Pull Between Sound And Syntax Creates

Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't Say I Belong To An Especially Anglophone Community.

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

I Try To Write Everyday. I Do That Much Better Over Here Than When I'm Teaching. I Always Rewrite, Usually Fairly Close-on Which Is To Say First Draft, Then Put It Aside For 24 Hours Then More Drafts.

I've Been An Inveterate Reader Of Literary Magazines Since I Was A Teenager. There Are Always Discoveries. You're Sitting In Your Easy Chair, Reading; You Realize You've Read A Story Or A Group Of Poems Four Times, And You Know, Yes, I Want To Go Farther With This Writer.

The Pleasure That I Take In Writing Gets Me Interested In Writing A Poem. It's Not A Statement About What I Think Anybody Else Should Be Doing. For Me, It's An Interesting Tension Between Interior And Exterior.