Diane Seuss was kind enough to speak with me about keeping poetry wild, freaking form, and her latest book, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl. It went up at The Rumpus today.
“I think of my work as punk-rural,” she says, “in that it emerges from rural spaces, but looks for the toughness, the strangeness, the absurdity, the taut stringiness, the rage and pain of it all as opposed to the homespun. The rural is no less punk than the urban. Roadkill. That’s my aesthetic. Naked dancing on the water tower. Cheez Doodles and a Coke. Cigar-smoking ghosts on the riverbank.”
Read the entire interview here.
Read some of Diane Seuss’s poetry online here:
- At Poets.org
- At the Poetry Foundation
- At VQR Online
- At the Missouri Review
- At Buzzfeed
- At The Rumpus
- At Bat City Review
Photo of Diane Seuss by Gabe Montesanti.
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