Interviews - August 2014

'The passenger syndrome'

An interview with Grzegorz Wróblewski

Note: In early April 2014, Polish writer and painter Grzegorz Wróblewski gave readings from his book Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013) at Columbia University, Cambridge Public Library, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

August 28, 2014

Resisting the art of entropy triumphant

An interview with Maxim Amelin

Derek Mong

Anne O. Fisher

Maxim Amelin

Note: “Poetry has enemies,” Maxim Amelin once told us, “both internal and external.” Among the latter he cited “philologists and historians of literature,” a deliberately provocative stance considering that Amelin, trained as a philologist, mines word roots and literary history for poems.[1]

August 6, 2014