![]() ![]() Right now, as I write this sharing, I realize that I am delighting in beginnings-the idea of talking with Daphne Marlatt about her book Then Now, the coming to language of a poem, the introduction to Concision Poetry Journal, an experimental poetry journal-and where those impulses and sparks of attention lead-to an expansive conversation with a beloved poet, to a deepening relationship with the imagination of a poem, to a new experimental poet friend-Haley Lasché, to the possibilities of connection with readers. Read! “ Before, a Study of Suspension,” a poem in Concision Poetry Journal, Issue 2.2, Summer 2022. Read! On Then Now: A Conversation with Daphne Marlatt in The Capilano Review | See to see. With that, thank you for joining the conversation! Within the conversation, Daphne talks about not wanting to “tamper” with her father’s voice in the text of her book at another point, she says writing is “a matter of hearing, learning to hear the various levels in language.” This ethos informs our desire and commitment to leave the idiosyncrasies of our speech intact. So, we left the accompanying awkwardnesses associated with thought coming to articulation as is. We agreed that despite any wish to have been more or differently articulate in the moment, the meaning, awkward though its syntax may be, is clear. Kaboom!Ī special-to-me aspect of my conversation with Daphne, which unfolded during the editing process of our review-in-conversation, focused on maintaining the tone and energy of our live conversation once it was on the page. What you will read is an edited-to-two-thousand-five-hundred-word version of the twelve-thousand-word transcription of four recorded 20- to 30-minute meetings that took place via Zoom in November 2021 when Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt and I met to talk about the thinking behind and making of her most recent book, Then Now (Talonbooks, 2021). On Then Now: A Conversation with Daphne Marlatt, featured in The Capilano Review | See to see. You are most cordially invited to read: On Then Now: A Conversation with Daphne Marlatt, featured in The Capilano Review | See to see- column. And, beyond being in print, there exists the possibility of connection and communion with other writers and readers, who by the grace of the Poetry Gods, may shake hands and rub shoulders with my words.Īllow me to court that possibility of connection with you right now! ![]() Yes, being published is exciting, especially after the butt-in-chair love-labors of transcribing recordings and editing responses, whether those conversations are between two poets or between a poet and the world as it unfolds during a walk-poem. This is quite a week in a poet’s life-because a review-in-conversation I have love-labored over since November 2021 now appears in The Capilano Review, and a poem from The Long Now Conditions Permit now appears in Concision Poetry Journal. Hello from the middle of June, dear reader! ![]()
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