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….

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….

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….

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 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'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….

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 - ….

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

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

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

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….

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