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September 19, 2018

More interviews

Someone's got to keep this generation honest

Corso editors Raymond Foye and George Scrivani, with William Lessard

William Lessard

Raymond Foye

George Scrivani

The Golden Dot: Last Poems, 1997–2000 (Lithic Press, 2022) is a white-hot summation and extended last word of a poet who was most alone in the company of others and frequently his own worst advocate. The Shelley-infused lyricist, familiar to us from more than a dozen books across forty years, is still in evidence, but there is a newfound clarity and urgency to the work, which is like meeting a long-lost friend after decades apart. It was my pleasure to interview longtime Corso compatriots and editors Raymond Foye and George Scrivani, who have accomplished the heroic task of transforming the fluid manuscript Corso left into the poignant collection we have here. Like many folks from New York City’s poetry community, I knew Corso had a final great book in him, but I doubted the unrepentant hellraiser would ever pull it off.

Note: The youngest foundational Beat is having a revival. After a folio of new poems appeared a few months ago in The Brooklyn Rail, the full collection from which they were excerpted has arrived, and it couldn’t be more of a surprise — and a delight.

November 4, 2022

'And whoever picks it up grabs the magic'

Will Alexander on Close Listening, October 19, 2016

Charles Bernstein

Will Alexander

Editorial note: Charles Bernstein and Will Alexander had a conversation about Alexander’s work for Clocktower Radio’s Close Listening at PennSound’s Carroll Garden Studios in Brooklyn, New York, on October 19, 2016. Some of the topics they touched on include: Alexander’s works, philosophy, connections and citations and references and sources, mythology, genre, aural properties of writing and performance, jazz, drawing and sketching, identity and politics of writing, location, and the writer’s mindset.

October 20, 2022

The delight of this work
Women of color celebrate second books

Gabrielle Civil

Violent holidays in Russia
An interview with Kirill Medvedev

Kirill Medvedev

'Poetry is in the world'
Gillian Conoley and Christy Davids in conversation

Gillian Conoley

Zoning in, zoning out
A trialogue

Edgar Garcia

Dots in the distance
A dialogue with Mark Francis Johnson

Mark Francis Johnson

The longer short of it
An interview with Hiroaki Sato

Hiroaki Sato

Jocelyn Saidenberg and Eric Sneathen
A conversation

Eric Sneathen

Afrizal Malna in conversation with Daniel Owen

Afrizal Malna

The 'now what' question of music and poetics
Rodrigo Toscano with Clare Louise Harmon

Rodrigo Toscano

Navigating distance in locality
An interview with Tom Patterson, featuring photographs by Jonathan Williams

Andy Martrich

Alternative poetries and alternative pedagogies
Joan Retallack, Kelly Writers House, 2001

Joan Retallack

One side or the other of that 'you'
Claudia Rankine and David Naimon in conversation

David Naimon

'The performance of freedom'
Close Listening with Tonya Foster and Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein

Transfer and estrangement
Gail Scott in conversation with Jane Malcolm

Gail Scott

This is provocation
Tom Weatherly with Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie

Tom Weatherly

Caleb Beckwith and Suzanne Stein in conversation
'Political Subject'

Caleb Beckwith

Being in a body
Samantha Giles and Lauren Levin

Samantha Giles

Sycorax, spirit, and 'Zong!'
An interview with M. NourbeSe Philip

Jordan Scott

Inadequacy of skin and feather
Jaimie Gusman on 'Anyjar'

Jaimie Gusman

Condemnation, confrontation, remembrance
A conversation with Andrew Levy and Norman Fischer

Norman Fischer

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