A conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum and Lucie Brock-Broido

From: Parnassus : Poetry in Review | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

WK: It's great to be in your pad, sitting on the crushed velvet. Is that what it's called?

LBB: Cut velvet.

I'd like to begin by discussing what I call the provocation of the poem. My poems are troubled into making. What provokes yours?

WK: A combination of boredom and the need to rise out of lethargy through action. Often, writing a poem seems the only available action.

LBB: Is lethargy one of your demons? You don't strike me as battling with it.

WK: Yes, no. My dream would be to sink permanently into a lethargy resembling art-making, so that I'd be sluggish and industrious at the same ...

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