Claudia Emerson on the “poetics of preservation”

In a time when this very medium opens up endless questions about the methods and motives of preservation, the above interview with Claudia Emerson offers a rare opportunity to hear a successful poet speaking candidly about what has past and is passing and is to come in her work.

 


recent-meR. T. Smith has edited Shenandoah since 1995 and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Washington & Lee. His forthcoming books are Doves in Flight: 13 Fictions and Summoning Shades: New Poems, both due in 2017.