Robert Bly is the most vivid. He always seemed ten times more alive than everyone else. It was startling. He was gruff but funny, with children, a lot of fun but serious, intimidating. He showed me how to ride a horse and shoot a gun, and that was big stuff at six and seven years old. I vaguely remember Roethke and Berryman, I was introduced to Sexton, the young Bill Knott—the lovely John Logan, sort of like a drunk saint. When I was visiting him in New York during late high school and during college years, which happened once or twice a year, we got together with Kinnell, Merwin. Dickey was a trip, as I think I have mentioned. Probably lots of other people I am forgetting.
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...I'm writing much slower, though. And I've developed a nasty addiction to Butterfinger Crisps.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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Thanks for the link. This FW interview is really good. He comes across much more interestingly, genuinely and openly than in other venues where I've read his views.
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