How does your work first enter the world?
I have developed a form of bi-phasic sleep, where no matter what time I go to sleep at night, I am awake after midnight for a few hours during which I read poetry that inspires me. The reverberations that this activity sets off puts me in a certain frame of mind that is conducive to creative writing, a kind of sympathetic resonance from which new ideas materialize, and old ones emerge set in new patterns. Once I have set down the newly emerging pattern of words, I am able to return to sleep; over the subsequent nights and days I am able to polish the evolving work.
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