Follow by Email  Search This Blog   Friday, June 1, 2012
Writing the Stuff that Falls through the Cracks (Puke, Dirty
Dishes, Poop, etc.)  Every once in a while I read an interview
that delights me cerebrally, aesthetically, and everywhere in
between, plus also makes me slow down, scribble down memorable
quotes, re-read the revelatory insights ... and also makes me
laugh. Rachel Zucker, Matthew Rohrer, & Wayne Koestenbaum
conduct just this sort of interview, which is ostensibly about
the Domestic in Poetry, but also about, well, cocks behind the
couch, forbidden subjects (dreams, the price of a haircut,
fingernail clipping, though maybe not), and also about
Coleridge's thoughts on the imagination (vs. fancy), and also
about the Accounters: Ben Franklin, HD Thoreau, and Tennyson
with his minuitae-crammed (pill-taking log) notebooks.  I loved
this quote by Matt Rohrer, regarding why he started writing
about the day-to-day, "boring" stuff:  It's the most debased
form of talking about yourself. That made me more