I realized I’d started to use this strategy of persona to notwork into the deeper issues of power and voice and the vessel of the body that I’d been working with and struggling with in my own life. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Picks Fire Is Not a Country: Poems Constellation Route The dj vu: black dreams & black time Return Flight Map to the Stars. Gabrielle Calvocoressi:I was in Marfa and what I realized was the book was so locked down and not at all what I had wanted or hoped for. ![]() Sarah Fowler: Building off of the Bandleader question-I am wondering when the use/manipulation of breath came in to play? Was it always a part of the equation with that character? Gabrielle Calvocoressi: And then in 2012 I had the tremendous fortune of getting to go to Marfa, TX for a Lannan Fellowship where I got to sit in this house that just looked out at this giant sky. Magazine Book Club & Poetry Book Club Literature is community, become a Rumpus Member Profielfoto van Interviews AMA. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club 30.00 / month Subscribe The Rumpus. When I first started working on it I had a whole sort of story in mind, personae, an arc… basically the recipe for a disaster.Įve Linn: Could you comment on how you conceived of this as a narrative? I’d started some of the poems before Apocalyptic Swing came out. Gabrielle Calvocoressi: Well, you know this book took me almost a decade to write. You write about it in your introduction, but I’m curious about how the idea evolved over time and affected the book. ![]() ![]() This Rumpus Book Club interview was edited by Brian Spears.īrian S: Talk to me about this choice to use a symbol to represent the Bandleader. Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Gabrielle Calvocoressi about her new collection Rocket Fantastic, the fluid nature of gender, and the reader as collaborator with the text. The Rumpus celebrates its long-running Funny Women column and first-ever IRL Book Club event Readings by the columns editor, Elissa Bassist (author of. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Calvocoressi:
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