I'm trying to stop myself here, but I can't.
This is a rather, if not very, dull interview. It's hardly Alicia's fault, though she could have rattled the cage of someone asking these questions form central casting about technique and Greek, throwing the ball back in the interviewer's court. I have heard her answer some of these questions before, more than once. And it's not like I follow her career any more closely than the next guy does.
Yes, she says what we formalists want to hear. But we shouldn't demand to be told what we want to hearr. And we should expect a much more lively exchange with a poet of Alicia's caliber.
If I am not mistaken, the exact same questions are asked of Erica Dawson in the same issue.
It seems to me that Alicia shows colossal patience in this situation.
Selah,
R. Mullin.
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