Poetry Dovetails Contradictions.

As A Teacher You Are More Or Less Obliged To Pay The Same Amount Of Attention To Everything. That Can Wear You Down.

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.

The Woman Poet Must Be Either A Sexless, Reclusive Eccentric, With Nothing To Say Specifically To Women, Or A Brilliant, Tragic, Tortured Suicide.

Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't Say I Belong To An Especially Anglophone Community.

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.