“My primary interest has always been the attempt to understand and
deepen experience by bringing it into words. Poetry, for me, is an
instrument of investigation and a mode of perception, a way of knowing
and feeling both self and world … I am interested in poems that find a
clarity without simplicity; in a way of thinking and speaking that does
not exclude complexity but also does not obscure; in poems that know the
world in many ways at once—heart, mind, voice, and body.”
