Poetry Dovetails Contradictions.

I Don't Know Whether A Poem Has Be There To Help To Develop Something. I Think It's There For Itself, For What The Reader Finds In It.

As A Teacher You Are More Or Less Obliged To Pay The Same Amount Of Attention To Everything. That Can Wear You Down.

With, Or Despite Our Scars, We Stay Alive.

Poetry Seems To Have Been Eliminated As A Literary Genre, And Installed Instead, As A Kind Of Spiritual Aerobic Exercise - Nobody Need Read It, But Anybody Can Do It.

I Started To Send My Work To Journals When I Was 26, Which Was Just A Question Of When I Got The Courage Up. They Were Mostly Journals I Had Been Reading For The Previous Six Or Seven Years.