Questions for EB

As Approaching Ice seemed to incorporate the feeling of experience, how do you see experience in its relation to poetry as a whole?

How do you see the constant reference to source material as a development of human identity or self?

In some of your poems such as "Matthew Henson" and "Against Solitude" you seem to almost embody the characters and write from their perspective, how does this relate or complicate contemporary postmodern issues and methods of narration?

I enjoyed your remark in the Persea interview to the strange nature of humanity, how do you see this idea in Approaching Ice?