Living At That Pitch, On That Edge,

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

What I Try To Do Is To Go Into A Poem - And One Writes Them, Of Course, Poem By Poem - To Go Into Each Poem, First Of All Without Having Any Sense Whatsoever Of Where It's Going To End Up

For Whatever Reason, People, Including Very Well-educated People Or People Otherwise Interested In Reading, Do Not Read Poetry

Last Year I Was A Judge For A Prize In England, The T.s. Eliot Prize, So I Read Everything That Was Published In England Last Year.

I Live In New Jersey Now, Which Always Gets A Bad Rap Here And There, But I Must Say, I Enjoy Living Here Too