two interview or not two interview
to which the title of this short piece is a goofy pun on shakespeare! but as the great steve martin used to say, WELL, EXUUUUUUUSE ME!!!
at any rate, i love reading interviews. especially interviews with poets. i mean, i'm no guild man but i am a human being who loves poets & poetry, & who is doing his damnedest by making his life in poetry. not as a career. i have no professional poetical career at all. i think i've made all of 15 bucks in the selling of my chapbooks. usually, when i am, in the odd occasion, offered to read in public i set up my chaps with a sign that says, gratis. people are usually confused by this notion of free poetry. so i countenance their confusion & respond to it thusly, 'okay, the books are free, but my signature will cost you 5 bucks!' har har har!!!
so then back to interviews. this evening i read two. one from 2011 & one published just this year. both are wonderful in their own ways.
bill bissett is a wildly prolific canadian poet with an orthographic style that takes a little practice to read but is utterly worth the effort. bissett is an outsider's outsider that manages to let all of us inside to find a strong, warm & inclusive person. but rather than have me use adjectives to describe bissett let him do the talking.
you'll find bill bissett interviewed by ryan j. cox here https://eeevee2.blogspot.com/2011/11/interview-with-bill-bissett-by-ryan-j.html.
eileen myles needs no introduction cuz they are prolific as hell too & pretty damn popular. i dig myles' poetics & practice that if it is 'worth doing it is worth doing badly.' as the old marketing catch phrase for nike shoes used to say, just do it! in re writing & reading.
you'll find eileen myles interviewed by james yeh here https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-eileen-myles/.
