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...CS: Well, that has changed at different points in my life. I used to write mostly late at night. Now I write in the morning, very early in the morning, like 6 am. Or I write in the afternoon, after lunch. Very rarely anymore at night...
...CS: No. You really have to start by putting pencil to paper. Every time I start something from scratch, I have so many things that I’m working on—files and files of half-finished and unfinished poems—so I look at them. And then that sets something else off. I very rarely sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and say, “What shall I write about?” It’s something ongoing...
...CS: A lot. It’ll take about a year, a year and a half, for a poem. Sometimes the very simple poems you just can’t seem to get right...
...CS: Well, I don’t know Serbo-Croatian very well anymore. [Laughs.] I developed a love of language by reading great literature in English. A poet, as Joseph Brodsky used to say, essentially works for the dictionary. I am an employee of the dictionary...
...CS: I don’t know if there’s an ideal world. Already, people out there seem to understand what goes on in the poems. I’m always stunned when somebody occasionally writes me a note about something, and I realize that there are really readers out there who can read between the lines, who have as much a gift for being readers as people have for being writers. And beyond that, there is, I suppose, some kind of ideal reader who understands you more than you do. I had a friend who used...