An episode from 8/14/24: Tonight, I read excerpts from the poet Robert Pinsky’s 1995 interview with The Paris Review. It is fascinating to see how much of what he says seems timeless and wise (everything on creativity, writing habits, high and low speech, etc.), and those things that seem stuck in the amber of 1995 (the phenomenon of poets teaching at universities).
I end the episode with a reading of his incredible visionary poem, “The Figured Wheel.” (The poem is available in many books, but as I say in the beginning of this episode, it was an early collected volume with that name where I first discovered him.)
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