If you'd like to know what it was (& continues to be) like to edit a small press poetry magazine (Lilliput Review) for 22 years and then publish your first book at age, well, old ... this is the place:
Christien Gholson's noise & silence
Christien, a long time favorite poet and, now, novelist, managed to ask all the right questions that elicited responses which informed me about my own work. Usually it is the interviewer that is grateful; in this case it is the interviewee.
To complement the interview, here's a review of William Hart's Home to Ballygunge: Kolkota Tanka I did recently for simply haiku.
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Christien, a long time favorite poet and, now, novelist, managed to ask all the right questions that elicited responses which informed me about my own work. Usually it is the interviewer that is grateful; in this case it is the interviewee.
To complement the interview, here's a review of William Hart's Home to Ballygunge: Kolkota Tanka I did recently for simply haiku.
all of a sudden
he shuts up...
crow
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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Don,
ReplyDeleteGreat interview. Very insightful. The Lilliput Review works on so many levels and now even more.
Best, Peter
Don, You are most marvelous! Grant
ReplyDeletePeter:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words. I'm very appreciative.
Grant:
Cheers! You are the marvel.
Don
Don, great interview, indeed.
ReplyDeleteAs a struggling haiku poet, I was deeply moved by your following poems:
"Stop counting syllables, / start counting the dead."
Focus group --
the sky, the mountains,
the sea.
And as a student of philosophy, I was greatly enlightened by the following poem and your reflection on it
Spider puts me gently
in his little box, takes me
back inside.
Many thanks for sharing your work and wonderful thoughts.
Chen-ou
Chen-ou:
ReplyDeleteYou are very kind, indeed. I appreciate your words more than I can say.
Don
Don, Your descriptions of editing a journal are fascinating to me...who found that writing a book itself so daunting .... I know what it takes to make it "live"...
ReplyDeleteI also want to thank you for Wayne Hogan's drawings again... I've always enjoyed them...even way back as the journals took us on different paths. I've always wanted to "see" the natural world, and Wayne always wanted to show us what we all looked like inside! :-) Thanks, Merrill
Don,
ReplyDeleteGreat interview.
Particularly the bits about direct address and poking fun at oneself.
Keys to the kingdom!
wow, oh wow. a treat to read, mahalo Don.*
ReplyDelete*there is a longer version to this comment. I just wanted to leave a mark here. someday (like when I grow up) I'll send the longer version.
with laughter and glee, wow, oh wow - r
Merrill:
ReplyDeleteSo happy you enjoyed it and that you mentioned the wonderful artist, Wayne Hogan, who perfect eye and offset humor I find at once endearing and philosophically spot-on.
Tom - a deep bow, in all directions ...
ReplyDeleteRick, that's four wows an I'll take that on any scale, even 4 of 10 ...
ReplyDeletesincerely appreciate your kind words.
Don
Dear Don Wentworth,
ReplyDeleteYou are a compass to the four corners of both worlds. Would be lost without what you do. And, when your "Lillie" comes in the mail I literally stop. what I'm doing. Keep on. ~ Donna
Donna, you are very kind - cheers, Don
ReplyDeleteyeah, I think the scale is 1 to 3 Don. wow on - aloha.
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