Until that happens, here's part of an e-interview we did about my poem Toddle:
"You said that Toddle is composed of many short bits that work together, and that this is not how you normally write poems. I'm wondering how you made them work together. Did you work on sounds, images, and rhythm after choosing the pieces, or did you choose the pieces because of certain aspects that worked together? And if so, what stood out to you?Looking over the poem now, it feels very 'buggy' to me. And not dreamy-dragonfly-pastoral buggy but live-with-us-urban buggy. Also, the first part of the poem - with its syllables battering against the rearview - makes it seem as though there's a swarm in the car and not a distressed kid. My kid.
That's all after-the-fact guessing. Because I didn't make any of those linkages when I was writing all the bits or when I was grafting them together."
The rest is on her blog, see?
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