Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

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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....

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...

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

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

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 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...

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 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...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...