Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate thi….

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life..

I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But feroci….

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted..

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility..

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - ….

I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the h….

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible o….

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty..

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have..

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of c….

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one….