I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
