I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent ….

Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstructi….

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the pressure of writing. Ther….

I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me. They want to bring spoken, pros….

I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than I fe….

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change..

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the one e….

If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation ….

We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone….

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying civilization ….

I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that kind of poem. A lot….

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. Th….