“The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to sa…” — Marilyn Hacker

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.

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

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.