Anne Simpson

"I became a writer when I began to take it seriously."

"I find playing with form allows me to play with ideas."

"I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way."

"The forms often loop back on themselves... circling around on an idea in order to examine it more fully."

"I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live."

"I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say"

"Simpson writing website"