Revista Safareig Poètic núm 9 Revista Safareig_9 | Page 19

2019–2N SEMESTRE
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n una entrevista titulada "A poet with
Duende" (Ryan G. Van Cleave, The Io-
wa Review), Kim Addonizio parla de
la seva relació amb l'escriptura dins
internet, i aviat ho amplia a la seva manera de
concebre la poesia en general. Aquí teniu els
paràgrafs on explica això (amb traducció da-
rrere).
A few years ago, when Dorianne Laux and I we-
re working on
our book The Poet's Companion, we were just
getting online and were only vaguely aware of
what the web had to offer. We had to get a lot
of help with the chapter we called "Writing in
the Electronic Age."
Then, suddenly, it seemed everyone was on the
web, with an e-zine or a homepage for a print
journal or an author's site. My own site began
as a way to help promote my private classes, so
that I didn't have to spend so much time on the
phone going over what groups were scheduled
and how I approached poetry. Then, I wanted
to do something more that would be ongoing,
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and I started keeping an occasional journal,
trying to focus it mostly on writing. I see it as a
space to share a bit of my process, and to pass
on the things that
sustain me, and occasionally to rant or whine.
It's on the Internet, true, but it doesn't feel like
a big public forum. I have no idea how many
people see it. I don't try to make the writing
literary or anything; I pretty much sit down
and write about whatever's on my mind at the
time.
I think a lot about "the confessional," in terms
of this and in
terms of my poetry, which has been called con-
fessional by some. Of course, they're leaving
out a big chunk of my work, like Jimmy & Rita,
a book that is a verse novel, and lots of other
poems that focus on the world rather than the
self. And it's true that I have plenty ems about
me, me, me?at least, that's their surface. But
my hope, my aim, is to transcend the personal,
to use it for art? which to me means that you
make a connection, you stir something up in
someone else. If I fail to do this it's because I
haven't adequately transformed the subject
matter. If I think my experience is special,
and if the poem (or web journal) reads this
way, I've failed. It's a great challenge for the
ego, really, the part that just wants to be admi-
red. Or the part that simply needs, sometimes
desperately, to be seen. I guess what I'm saying
is that I'm really aware of the dangers of wri-
ting this way; there are a lot of psychic snares.
But what I value in poetry is exactly that: en-
countering another consciousness on the page,
experiencing the other in the same way we ex-
perience it in love. A successful poem is ultima-
tely an enlargement of
self, and speaks to a spiritual hunger.
(Fa uns anys, quan Dorianne Laux i jo estàvem
treballant al nostre llibre The Poet's Compa-
nion, El company del poeta, tot just acabàvem
de connectar-nos en línia i érem
només vagament conscients del que havia
d’oferir la xarxa. Ens calia molta ajuda amb el
capítol que anomenem “L’escriptura en l’era
electrònica”.
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