July 29, 2009
Video of Attla Bartis in Conversation with Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is one my favorite writers now that, despite overlooking him for years, I’ve tasted his new story collection, Fugue State. Bartis I haven’t read, but he won Three Percent’s best lit in translation prize last year. I also very much enjoyed the conversation where Bartis says of his influences “Somehow, I feel a division between Dostoevsky and the rest of literature. This is not a literary division, it is a personal, emotional division. I feel there is Dostoevsky and there is the rest of literature.” I find that statement compelling and true.
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Last year Derrick Brown did living room readings. I don’t think anyone there had ever read his poetry; I had barely been introduced a few days before. http://vimeo.com/6013960
Compared to any staged, stacked or emceed poetry reading, well, it was kind of like learning you hadn’t ever had good sex.
Granted, he’s a more engaging poet than many, and he reads poems that should be read aloud, like they should sound. I still think that a lot of the intimacy would have been lost in any a more austere setting.
As a listener, it had a profound and searing impact; if I could speak for the non-poetry-reading kind, I’d say they could not help but connect with this living poetry that was funny and sad and sweet and took you somewhere.
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