I can t categorize my own poems. Even this book, my second book. All the poems look different. There s a similarity of voice, but a lot of different voices, a lot of different shapes, forms, tones, attitudes. I believe a difficulty I ve had placing this book sooner is that often publishers are looking for a voice.
Revision is an interesting concept.
I ll do anything in a revision. I ll do absolutely anything. I ll move the last line to the first, which will make me push the poem farther. I ve recently changed my mind about that. I had lunch with Mary Rohrberger, a short story scholar, and she said people ought to get over the idea that it s all process.