#AmyHempel does not enjoy interviews. She quotes her friend Patty Marx: “I’m not good at small talk; I’m not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn’t come up.” Talking about the self is both unseemly and unnerving, she feels, and dissecting her own deliberate process of composition through, in her words, “pointy-headed questions,” tends to provoke her exasperation...
Interviewed by Paul Winner
in #ParisReview 166, Sum2003
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/227/the-art-of-fiction-no-176-amy-hempel

Somewhat of a haunting presentation of Amy Hempel's poem, "In a Tub", from her collection "Reasons to Live", Harper Perennial.

Commissioned by the 12th Annual Juniper Literary Festival.

Video by Ryan MacDonald.

#Poetry #Poem #FoundImages #Literature #AmyHempel

https://youtu.be/BOEdTowESIY