Marc Kaminsky
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
Poet Marc Kaminsky discusses and reads from his 1984 book-length narrative poem The Road from Hiroshima. He talks about his work as an integration of art and social process, and of imaginary and documentary writing and discusses the form, structure, and technique of his work including the use of assonance and direct description, while noting that technique "belongs in the workshop and is entirely discussed too much by poets." Kaminsky also discusses the publishing process with commercial publisher Simon & Schuster and editor Robert Bender, noting that the work evoked a "moral passion" at the publisher's offices. Recorded at NYU.
WNYC archives id: 73132
