Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:29:44 +0000

"When I write poems, I am still drawn to the Germanic inside the English. There is the familiarity of resemblance - the electric current that runs between my first namings, uttered as a toddler, to the present motions of a pen on the page. Those are the words that retain an immediacy and emotional weight. My poetic vocabulary, then, has something to do with allowing myself to feel the language, or performing Kafka's imperative on myself; that the words are an axe to the frozen sea within me."