In the two 80-part poems this book contains, Interviewing Ovid and the prefatory Wordsong Interview, I create a new genre of literature -- one that I've used in several previous books but which I still don't see any other writers adopting. The attraction of this new kind of writing -- the verse interview book -- is one I'd like to focus on here in a special way. It's a kind of mental journeying that "metamorphs" the writer. In The Wordsong Interview memoir poem I show how my verse colloquy books have allowed me to take on a variety of identities or "selves." In Interviewing Ovid my verse dialogue with Books I and II of his extraordinary ancient poem Metamorphoses (in the melodious Golding version from the Renaissance) has intertwined my own imaginative development with that of the scripture-like mythic narrative. From his own vision of a Genesis to one of an Apocalypse, Ovid enjoys thinking of our origins while at the same time he hopes -- as might an ancient Greta Thunberg -- to avert catastrophe. He has radically altered my sense of what a classical Roman imaginer could achieve. The two poems are thus alternative ways of looking at the theme "Metamorphoses and Me."

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• Publication Date: April 26, 2020
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• Print Length: 288 Pages
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