Note: This lengthy conversation between Jonathan Skinner and Stephen Ratcliffe took place in Bolinas, California, on March 22, 2011. Photographs throughout are by Jonathan Skinner.
Bolinas ridge, clockwise from upper left: April 27, 2011; May 16, 2011; January 2, 2011; June 11, 2011 (view from kitchen door). Photos by Stephen Ratcliffe.
This email ‘interview’ took place between July 14, 2008 and October 25, 2009. Jeffrey Schrader would send me a couple of ‘questions’ and, when I had time, I’d write a ‘reply’ – not exactly a ‘conversation’ (as he’d first proposed), because neither of us had time for something like that it seemed (he was over there in Oakland, I was here in Bolinas, no real way to sit down and simply talk), and so my thoughts (replies to Jeff’s questions) are ‘composed’, written down in the time it took me to write
Burt Kimmelman (left) and Michael Lally (right), September 2011.
Note: Michael Lally is the author of twenty-seven books, including two collections of poetry and prose from Black Sparrow Press — one an American Book Award winner for 2000, It’s Not Nostalgia — and the long poem March 18, 2001, jointly published by Libellum and Charta, with artwork by Alex Katz. He is also the author of Cant Be Wrong from Coffee House Press, which won the Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Award for “excellence in literature.” He has appeared in many films and TV shows and worked as a scriptwriter, or “doctor,” from the late 1970s to the early 2000s.
Note: The following is part of a larger conversation examining Ted Pearson’s An Intermittent Music, a serial work begun in 1975 and completed in 2010. The second half of this interview will also appear in Jacket2.
A previous interview, conducted in fall 2008, appears in Hambone 19, available through Small Press Distribution.
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