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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

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The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

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There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 27th, 1942

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