By: Yogesh Chawla
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Feature Interview with Liz Rosenberg By: Yogesh Chawla |
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Click here to answer the same questions we asked Liz Click here to read Selected answers from our readers Excerpt from Article Liz has never missed any of the details of life. Whether she is writing about a bird, a child, or a crazy man shouting at a bus station, she freezes these moments in our lives with the delicacy of haiku while retaining the intensity of the image. Her poetry is like herself; it pays equal attention to everything around it. It is not pretentious or condescending, rather it is self-aware and provides a compassion and understanding that is rarely seen these days. While conducting this interview, I knew that I was not just doing it for publication. I was looking for the answers to these questions myself. I had lost the concept of what poetry was to me, and where it fit in with the rest of the world. Excerpt from Interview YC: Email, cell phones, and computers are changing the way we communicate with each other. How do you think this is affecting poetry and the effectiveness of the communication done in poetry or in everyday life? LR: Maybe there is more need for poetry in our lives. People seem to be waking up to this. Even movies have become more poetic--I mean American movies. There is a great connection between the dreaming world, the poetry world, and the movie world. It all has to do with images. We are drowning in images, but many of those images are deadly or deadening. The pace at which we are forced to move is inhuman, and therefore also sickening. So poetry, though it takes very little time, moves at about the right speed--somewhere between reading a novel and looking at a painting. It asks us to take a little time to breathe deeply and look slowly and deeply, and with care.  
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