Our correspondent interviews the famously private poet
Question: You have before said, which is to say
that people quote you expressing the idea
and you've elaborated on other occasions
that this idea, or conception, I should say
has seemed to have a life, a meaning beyond
its origin. Would you comment on that? But first...
Question: In your work, as received by the audience
there often seems to be an almost pause
a moment of collection before expression
where as a reader one is forced to look
for alternative interpretation. How
do you imagine all that we imagine
sitting as we are so... figuratively
remote from you there with the pen...? Which makes
me recall! I have to ask, when ideas strike
-- sorry, this is a different question --
as an idea is dawning in your mind,
what do you gasp of it at first? A shadow
a mere imagining with every part
to be filled in, or is it more Athena
all springing fully formed with rhymes and scansion
already there in place? But I see we're out
of time and I wanted to ask about your book!
Never mind, I have enjoyed, it's been my privilege.
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