I was just curious last night when
you were talking about Deepstep Come Shining,
you said, you got the idea from a photographer or something
like that and then now it's like you have this idea for--
this with the prison.
Do you tend to only approach the longer pieces with the ideas
first?
Like, how did you or did you approach the collections
of your poems the same way?
No, I haven't done them all the same way I-- but I mean,
I'm not idea rich -- have a lot of language,
but don't have a lot of ideas.
So as in terms of collaboration, sometimes, I
have suggested the project to my friend Deborah Luster
and sometimes, she has suggested the project to me
and because we're working in different media,
we have a lot of autonomy in how we perceive to interpret
that, so the basic idea.
But you had like a theme before you approach?
We did, but sometimes, I don't have
the theme I only have a title.
And Tremble, I only had a title.
So-- an earlier book called Terrorism I only had a title.
It's nuts.
I always want to do it, but I do -- usually things do I try,
I have almost always tried to write the book.
So I've always been thinking of the whole thing
with the same way.