Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the s….

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to….

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Pub….

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way..