By W. T. Pfefferle
Out to determine the USA and fulfill his go back and forth trojan horse, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his place as director of the writing application at Johns Hopkins college and hit the line to interview sixty-two poets in regards to the value of position of their paintings. The full of life conversations that resulted could shock with the aptitude meanings of a likely basic idea. This collecting of voices and concepts is illustrated with photograph and observe images from the line and represented with appropriate poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C. D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.
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The poem is the experience of the experience of being in the natural world. A Morning I have carried it with me each day: that morning I took my uncle’s boat from the brown water cove and headed for Mosher Island. Small waves splashed against the hull and the hollow creek of oarlock and oar rose into the woods of black pine crusted with lichen. I moved like a dark star, drifting over the drowned other half of the world until, by a distant prompting, I looked over the gunwale and saw beneath the surface a luminous room, a light-filled grave, saw for the first time the one clear place given to us when we are alone.
The opening poem deals with Miami—but what’s interesting is that poem wasn’t written in Florida at all; it was written in New England during a blizzard. I just happened to be thinking for some reason about Miami, where I hadn’t been for four years, while the external circumstances could not have been more different. A few months after writing that poem I took a trip to Miami and realized I had succeeded in capturing some of its strangeness— the intensity of color and light, the car culture and leisure culture, the whole pleasure industry.
Maybe that’s why I like it. You’ve been here in Wisconsin for a few years now. Do you feel glad to be in one place, or do you feel a bit like it’s time to get going again? I feel—by default—that it’s time to go. But I tend to feel that way after two years anywhere. Part of it is that I know how to be new in a new place. Your question is a loaded one, in a good way, because even though I know it’s my default setting to go, I also know that when I was at Virginia I actually started—because I stayed there for so long—to cycle back through myself the energy I’d usually use for adapting to a new situation.