![]() ![]() The poetry writing process is an intricate exercise, isn’t it? There are the poems (part memory and part memoir) and then there is the plot (part chronology and part time travel). ![]() Once I focused on paring down to a thirty-page narrative, one memory begat another, telling the poet-speaker’s “true” story as honestly and openly as possible. One day, I envisioned that story stretching from childhood and coming of age into a well-organized adult poem of perception. Although there was no single moment when I decided to write about my father’s fixation with the Roswell, New Mexico, flying saucer incident or how it affected me, I can tell you that it showed up among many poems with vivid and often distressing moments from childhood-some with recurring images and motifs I had not yet connected to the rest of my poetry collection. ![]() I love your reference to the “genesis” of my book! It’s an apt metaphor for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Down Home. Tell us a little about the genesis of your book, including your writing process. Shake off that old shoe-įrom Close Encounters Down Home, Finishing Line Press, February 2021 Where Father knocked with a kitchen knifeĪt your side door. Of course I had to interview her for Zingara Poetry Review, which you will find below immediately following a poem expert from her book, Close Encounters Down Home. ![]() Missed hearing about her projects, missed reading her latest poem drafts, and equally missed telling her about my own work. You see, I have missed working with Pam ever since I moved from Albuquerque to Charleston eight years ago. When my good friend, Pam Yenser told me her poetry collection would be published earlier this year, I couldn’t wait to savor it. ![]()
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