I’ve heard you say (because of course, I am you) that poets have influenced your work. Can you tell us how they influenced Contents May Have Shifted in particular?
I went to graduate school in a creative writing program that housed both Mark Strand and Larry Levis, unquestionably two of the greatest poets of their time. I almost couldn’t help but to have learned to revere poetry–Strand’s compression of big ideas and Larry’s gut wrenching associative leaps.