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

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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...

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...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

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

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

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language...

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language...

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...

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...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's...

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...