If People Associate Me With A Region,

I Learned To Impersonate The Kind Of Person That Talks About Poetry. It Comes From Teaching, I Think.

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.

Young Writers Find Their First Audience In Little Magazines, And Experimental Writers Find Their Only Audience There.

A Poem In Form Still Has To Have Voice, Gesture, A Sense Of Discovery, A Metaphoric Connection, As Any Poetry Does.

In The Best Fiction, The Language Itself Can Become Almost Invisible.