How important is music to your poetry?
It is a subject I have given a lot of thought. If when you’re writing or conveying a private moment and if it is very painful, and if you’re jumping off the cliff headfirst, you’re not going to make music. I hope that my poems do have music which I don’t necessarily hear and that it is not as austere to the reader as it is to me. I have resisted making music in my own poetry, but I love musicality in poetry, particularly, poetry in translation, be it Brodsky or Rimbaud. A translation without music is rendered lifeless.
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