Suzanne,
Thanks so much for posting here. It is a delight to read these poems, some for the first time. I think it was Dick Davis who recommended your work to me. Wild Lightning and Demon Rum are just terrific. I think there are more opportunities nowadays for trade books with a formal bent--the New Criterion and Waywiser prizes among them, and I hope you will consider them.
Am fascinated by the potential relationship between the Davis and Bishop villanelle--it seems so obvious they must be linked in some way. Thanks for sharing this!
PS--edited in to say, I am really intrigued that nearly all of the interviews describe a childhood of a lot of unsupervised, unprogrammed time to drift and dream in, and many also comment upon hours spent in church and listening to hymns--also true for me I think, and certainly where I unconsciously imbibed a lot of my metrical sense, as well as a tolerance for quite slanted rhymes...
[This message has been edited by A. E. Stallings (edited December 03, 2008).]
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