Comments on: Poets’ Interviews: Who Would Win??

By: Ange

Ange — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:37:57 +0000

Cherryl: Isn’t that the truth! “Can we talk about writing poetry” is the question the interviewer was just waiting to ask, and the one that risks alienating Wieners. You can feel the trepidation, the fear of rejection…

By: Cherryl

Cherryl — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:52:28 +0000

Ange,
you know, lately when i read interviews, it is a true revelation to read only the interviewers questions/comments without the interviewees responses. often, it is an enlightened reading, to say the least.
as a reader, you detect a between-the-lines sense of motive and focus. you can almost see, sometimes, the *research* habits and literary dispositions that are often unspoken in the course of the interview. in this Foye-Wieners exchange, for example, there is so much illumination that enters the discussion when i reach this question: Can we talk about writing poetry?
thanks for sharing this.
light!
~Cherryl

By: Ange

Ange — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:33:41 +0000

Apologies to Derek & Ryan — I corrected the text above. Kudos to all three of you for bringing this book to light.

By: Michael Carr

Michael Carr — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:37:16 +0000

Just to give credit where it’s due, it was Derek Fenner & Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press doing the publishing-it-out-of-pocket part.