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It's Not As If I'm Trying To Write Crossword Puzzles To Which One Might Find An Answer At The Back Of The Book Or Anything Like That.

If The Poem Has No Obvious Destination, There's A Chance That We'll Be All Setting Off On An Interesting Ride.

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

Words Want To Find Chimes With Each Other, Things Want To Connect.

Last Year I Was A Judge For A Prize In England, The T.s. Eliot Prize, So I Read Everything That Was Published In England Last Year.