I also wanted to know how things and people work. I played on the periphery of the writing world for years until I went to work for Talon Books. I translated Gabriel Dumont's memoir because I saw his history as my history in a mirror. The mirror remains black. Every once in a while a light goes on.
Poetry is the most difficult form.
I try to write something every decade. I have come to believe that baseball like wrestling is fixed. I am a skeptic when I can keep from falling into cynicism. I divide my time with my family between the big cedars of Robert's Creek, BC and the divertissements of Vancouver. New Orleans beckons.