Who Gets To Choose What Battle Takes

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.

I Have Experienced Healing Through Other Writers' Poetry, But There's No Way I Can Sit Down To Write In The Hope A Poem Will Have Healing Potential. If I Do, I'll Write A Bad Poem.

Who Gets To Choose What Battle Takes Her Down?

When You Translate Poetry In Particular, You're Obliged To Look At How The Writer With Whom You're Working Puts Together Words, Sentences, Phrases, The Triple Tension Between The Line Of Verse, The Syntax And The Sentence.

I Worked At All Kinds Of Jobs, Mostly Commercial Editing.