“I see the world I live in, and the body I use, as media for poetry. I think it’s a mistake to assume that poetry expresses only the individual’s feelings or thoughts. I think poetry expresses itself, and my life is the medium it uses in its own self-preserving act. I like the way Iris Cushing put it in a conversation once: she said she didn’t think of poetry as an event in her life, but of her life as an event in poetry.”