I had a lovely time chatting with Joe Milford Saturday night about my work. He’s a sensitive and careful close-reader and the 90 minutes flew by; I felt like we could have talked for another 90 minutes and still not covered all there is to cover.
If you missed the show, it is now archived HERE (and is the streaming show on his site’s main page this week). My site will be undergoing an overhaul soon and we’ll be adding a media page where the interview will also live along with some other audio (and soon video!) files.
Here was the set-list from the show:
Set 1 – selections from Pear Slip
Preface: Pear Poetics
How to Write, How Not to Write About Pears
This Is Not About Pears
Pared & Canned
Silkscreen: Pome in a Bowl
Frost Pear (Bonus pear poem not in PS)
Set 2 – selections from Narcissus Resists
Contaminant
Celluloid
Clubbing
Concussion
Crush
Celebrity Skin
Cybersex
Crepuscule
Set 3 – selections from Skin Shift
The Fresco Worker Appears Suddenly in the Picture
Bufeo Colorado
Local Lepidoptera Adopt Municipal Pool…
Uncle Remus Denies the Ethnographer
Substitutions
Restoration
Orange Colored Sky
I will definitely take Joe up on his invite to return and do the show again. Maybe next time we’ll focus on work from The Erotic Postulate or Impossible Gotham. Check out The Joe Milford Poetry Show site for upcoming shows and browse his extensive and impressive archive of past shows.