VALENTINE’S & WORTHY SUBJECTS I’m blogging on Valentine’s week without the merest nod to the Valentine. But here is something about poetry and the heart. * * * I think I may have failed to write a book I was... Continue reading

SELF-INTERVIEW IV WRITING “NIGHT THOUGHTS” (night thoughts: 70 dreams & notes from an analysis was published last month by Knopf.) I’ve always told myself that, as a poet, I’m only waiting and listening. However, making night thoughts wasn’t like that.... Continue reading

SELF-INTERVIEW (Interviewing myself) WEDNESDAY CRYING & LAUGHING; HOW I WROTE SONO For a year or so after I wrote Visits from the Seventh I tried to write the same book again in other words. The poems came out as polite... Continue reading

MUSE, MUSES & CHANNELING HOW I WROTE “VISITS FROM THE SEVENTH" During the years that I was writing Visits from the Seventh I experienced myself as channeling. I said this in an interview at the time it was published: I’m... Continue reading

Hello. My new book, night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, has just appeared, and I’m feeling thoughtful and nostalgic. I’ve decided to write here this week about my writing life--I'll start very young, with reading-- BEING... Continue reading