I Worked At All Kinds Of Jobs,

Translation Makes Me Look At How A Poem Is Put Together In A Different Way, Without The Personal Investment Of The Poem I'm Writing Myself, But Equally Closely Technically.

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.

Translation Is An Interestingly Different Way To Be Involved Both With Poetry And With The Language That I've Found Myself Living In Much Of The Time. I Think The Two Feed Each Other.

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.

I Try To Write Everyday. I Do That Much Better Over Here Than When I'm Teaching. I Always Rewrite, Usually Fairly Close-on Which Is To Say First Draft, Then Put It Aside For 24 Hours Then More Drafts.