There Is Something Very Satisfactory About Being

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.

There Is A Way In Which All Writing Is Connected. In A Second Language, For Example, A Workshop Can Liberate The Students' Use Of The Vocabulary They're Acquiring.

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.

The Pull Between Sound And Syntax Creates A Kind Of Musical Tension In The Language That Interests Me.

You Are Almost Not Free, If You Are Teaching A Group Of Graduate Students, To Become Friends With One Of Them. I Don't Mean Anything Erotically Charged, Just A Friendship.