Реферат: Online Interviews With Robert Pinsky Essay Research

FEED: Are the bookstores and publishing

houses so inundated with poetry books that the "bad stuff" is weakening the

market and distracting readers from the "good stuff"? Or are poetry lovers

becoming overwhelmed by the plethora of choices? Or are poetry lovers damn happy to have

so much choice?

PINSKY: I think these are serious

questions: The bad driving out the good is a disturbing thought. My tendency is toward the

theory that the cream rises to the top, in the long run. Thank god for boredom! It insures

that inflated writing or coterie writing — whether the coterie is avant garde or academic

or ethnic or whatever — quietly sinks.

FEED: Is the internet helping to

disseminate poetry to a wider audience?

PINSKY: I think so — the number of poetry

sites, and the amount of poetry on them, both old and new, canonical and not, is

remarkable. And as with the poems in Slate, some of it is audible.

FEED: Which poems would you recommend as

an introduction to your work?

PINSKY: Maybe "Shirt" or

"The Figured Wheel." Maybe "The Want Bone" or "History of My

Heart." Maybe a section from "An Explanation of America." Maybe "From

the Childhood of Jesus" or "Immortal Longings." But this [choosing one of

my poems] is, as the old line has it, like choosing a favorite child. And each different

reader in each different mood will want something different.

FEED: Finally, who do you write for? Do

you have one person in mind?

PINSKY: I write for a person like me, but

who did not write this poem. To put it another way, I try to write things that would

attract and move me, if someone else had written them. I try to write something that would

make me feel something like what I feel when I read "At the Fishhouses" or