I wrote String Too Short to Be Saved, my first prose book, almost entirely in that house, and writing it in England, further away even than Michigan, was probably key. I did intend to do it that year... I wrote lots of poems... and poems... I wrote poems that in general I liked more than I did the earlier ones, that year in that house, and String Too Short to Be Saved. I worked on poems in the morning, and then I would go upstairs to the cold music room in the afternoon, and write the prose of String Too Short to Be Saved. And I also wrote other things and interviewed Moore.  But there was one more major event in... in that year. That year I was 39, and The Paris Review had had me interview TS Eliot a year or two earlier, and it had worked out very well. Interviewing Eliot was easy. I read everything and came up with a hundred questions or so, some of which I used, and just sat with him and talked, and he was very happy. It was after his second marriage - shortly after - and he was eloquent, and amused, and amusing, and he spoke in complete sentences, he spoke in paragraphs, like an Englishman, and there was very little that he wanted to revise from the transcript of the... of the interview. But then they wanted me to interview Ezra Pound.