Реферат: Online Interviews With Robert Pinsky Essay Research

people are nearly pious about it, often, even though practice of it is uneven. As

to the state of poetry’s practice, writers like Frank Bidart, Louis Gl?ck, James

McMichael, Mark Strand, C.K. Williams, and Anne Winters have produced amazing work,

despite the deplorable state of much reviewing and of much academic criticism.

from The Cortland Review (March

1998). Copyright ? 1999 The Cortland Review. Online Source

Interview with

Maura Kelly for FEED magazine

FEED: Tell me about how you came up with

the idea for the Favorite Poem Project.

PINSKY: The project is so much an

extension of what I’ve been doing all my life that it’s hard for me to think of it as an

"idea." Poems are meant for people’s voices. The art is vocal, but not

necessarily performative. The appeal of cadenced language is as universal as voice. It’s

not much of an "idea" to go from those basic notions on to the idea of asking as

many people as possible, of as many kinds as possible, to say a poem they love, and to

explain a little bit about why.

Most attachments are based on a physical

encounter, or begin with a physical encounter. That is why the teacher must read aloud

things he or she loves to the children, and the children must read aloud to one another

things that they have chosen, that they love. Analysis and interpretation are good, but

the appetite for them comes after that physical encounter and the attraction. First you

like the cuisine, the sport, the person, the animal… then, later, the craving comes for

information, analysis, interpretation.

FEED: So that’s why it’s important to read

poetry out loud, for the physical encounter?

PINSKY: Poetry is a bodily medium. Its

intimacy and universality depend on the medium of the reader’s voice. It must be heard to

be appreciated and to work.