Q: Why poetry?

A: Poetry is perhaps the most efficient method of expressing the penumbral qualities of every thing. Like music, it evokes a crystallization of emotional epiphany. Like mathematics, it engages and plays upon our cognition of reality. Like the visual arts, it employs the universal- symbols, utterly interpretable to our individual desires, while providing information and beauty. I've always been a fan of the penumbra.

Q: If you could curl up in bed tonight with any dead poet, who would it be?

A: Mmm... tonight? Delmore Shwartz.

Q: What city must you see before you shed the mortal coil?

A: Kinshasa.

Q: What was the last film you thoroughly enjoyed?

A: It's a tie between Shoot the Piano Player and re-watching Hellraiser II.

Q: If you could see any musical act live, who would it be?

A: Can I get away with a dance performance with orchestra? L'après-midi d'un faune at Théâtre du Châtelet on May 29, 1912. Or if that's not a part of the bargain, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

Q: What is your greatest, secret ambition?

A: To have a goat farm with my husband to be, barefoot and pregnant.

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