Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events,

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.

Alchemy Is The Art Of Far And Near, And I Think Poetry Is Alchemy In That Way. It's Delightful To Distort Size, To See Something That's Tiny As Though It Were Vast.

I Did Not Have A Very Literary Background. I Came To Poetry From The Sciences And Mathematics, And Also Through An Interest In Japanese And Chinese Poetry In Translation.

Distance Not Only Gives Nostalgia, But Perspective, And Maybe Objectivity.

I Love To Create Interesting Textures With Language. You Can Do It As Long As It Seems Like A Discovery.