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INTERVIEWER
Do you have any primary imaginative concerns when you write a poem?
AMICHAI
The most important dimension in writing for me is time. Time is entirely relative, relational. The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time—a play on comparative literature—is comparative time. Time, for me, is imaginatively comparative and continuous; I have an almost physical sense of memory recall. I can pick up any point in my life and be almost physically right there, but in an emotional sense . . . There’s a Talmudic saying that “there’s nothing early or late in the Bible,” which means that everything, all events, are ever present, that the past and future converge on the present, especially in language.
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