Реферат: Online Interviews With Gwendolyn Brooks Essay Research

Online Interviews With Gwendolyn Brooks Essay, Research Paper

from "An Interview with Gwendlyn Brooks" in Artful Dodge

When in Bloomington this February (1979), Brooks discussed her poetry with The

Artful Dodge while driving to the Ramada Inn after a day of reading and speaking. Amid

the traffic noises of Saturday night Bloomington she spoke of the direction of her poetry

is taking at present, a direction which promises yet more vital and direct poetry.

Steve Cape: Having heard you read several times, the readings seem a lot different from

the poems as they come off when I’m reading them from a book. Does the idea of oral poetry

seem more immediate or real to you than printed or written poetry?

Brooks: No. In fact, you might be surprised to know I have a visual appreciation for

poetry myself. I’d rather ready anybody’s work than listen to it. I can get something out

of listening, but you can’t pick up everything. But what I try to do in reciting is to

give whoever is listening an impression of how I felt when I wrote the piece. I try to

paint the poem on the air.

SC: Is there any use of mythology in your poems, any myths that you work from or play

with in the poems?

Brooks: No. I never really investigated mythology. My daughter enjoyed so much reading Bulfinch’s

Mythology, which we always had in the house but which I never read myself. I’m sure

though that there are African myths or their counterparts that much could be done with,

but I have not tried that.

SC: How would you describe your process of composition, or a poem coming into being?

Brooks: When I’m excited about something or moved by something, I take notes on it

immediately so I won’t forget or loose my inspiration.

SC: Gary Snyder when he was here last fall said the same thing, that when he got an

initial phrase or an idea, no matter when it was–if it was two in the morning–that he’d

write it down (Brooks: oh, yes) and then go to fill it out later. Does that seem like a

familiar approach?

Brooks: I’m always taking notes, and then when I have time and can recapture the mood,

I start (as I was telling the students this afternoon) forging a first draft, and that’s

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