- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
- French Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
- Descriptive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020