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(13 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   I've been in Paris as much as I could be, which includes living here for longer stretches of time, then eventually just living here tout court.

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(8 votes)   Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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(3 votes)   The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

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(23 votes)   Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.

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(17 votes)   You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

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

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(9 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

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