I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French...

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...