[W.F. Lantry]

Hey, folks,

An excellent interview. Eight poems. An artist's statement. Even a short photo-essay on aesthetics. Thanks to Bill Yarrow, J.P. Reese, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, and Lacey N. Dunham for asking great interview questions. What a joy! Life is good!

http://www.thiszine.org/poetry/lantry-spotlight

Thanks,

Bill

[Janice D. Soderling]

Bill, I can't resist asking, does the F. in your name in your name stand for Ford? And are you close kin to Henry?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmass.htm

[Risa Denenberg]

Love the interview, Bill. And the poems. And so pleased to have a piece in This alongside you!

[Janice D. Soderling]

Congrats to you too Risa, as well as to Bill. I apologize for not reading the Contributors page. Good on both of you.

[W.F. Lantry]

Risa,

Sorry I missed you. I scanned the contents too quickly. Nice poem!

Thanks,

Bill

[Adam Elgar]

All exquisite, Bill. Many congratulations!

and to Risa too. Good to see you here.

[Allen Tice]

I'm very glad you like Char.

Here's another Frenchman's view (in translation):

A poem must be a holiday of Mind. It can be nothing else.
Holiday: it is a game, but solemn, ordered and significant; image of what one ordinarily is not, partaking of a state where efforts are rhythms--are redeemed.
One celebrates something in accomplishing it, or representing it in its purest and fairest state.
Here we have the power of language and its inverse phenomenon, understanding, identity of the things it separates. One discards its poverty, its weaknesses, its everydayness. One organizes all the possibilities of language.
The holiday , nothing must remain. Ashes, trampled garlands.

- Valery

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[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Great interview Bill,
Really thinking about quite a few of the sections.
Thanks. And congrats to Risa.

[Marybeth Rua-Larsen]

Great feature, Bill. Congrats!