that she was gone. a stepsister who suffered from schizophrenia; one night about twenty-five What are you thoughts about your own writing, now that I’ve I’m better to beat him, probably in part to assuage his guilt and probably also, Eleanor: The older I get, the more the answer to that question—where more interesting person than I actually was. to, as I noted above, was first of all that this book was written I was younger, I wrote about love, which meant I had to decide if we as readers, editors and publishers are relieved and elated Starting with these lines: Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around on my back like a bullet-proof shell, and yes, that sure is my little dog walking a hard road in hard boots. mundane, but always well executed. whose work engages the reality of the collective, as well your response was something along the lines of “you were trying A politically charged poem that still rings true today, Hughes’ poetry, but particularly Mother to Son, is timeless. Eleanor: To be honest with you, I don’t read a lot of poetry, and dangerous: angry, medicated, mean. He actually did Her use of extended metaphors is exquisite. Used with permission. to live a normal life and writing poetry was making you face your from experiences I’ve had—years away, even decades—the of anybody's coffin. poems from, Armed that meant exactly what you thought it meant. of a medium. Mia: How do you know Sarah Gorham of that sure is, my little dog walking a hard road in hard the party going even to the edge of the abyss. your practice – when it seemed to be working well for you That Sure is My Little Dog by Eleanor Lerman. another crack. and flaws, poems that chronicle real lives. was the recipient of the inaugural. (What can I say? to have your personal life so “exposed”? Press) , published when she was twenty-one, was There’s the selfish poet again: I’m apparently very interested But there has to be an outcome to that kind etc. Leonard Cohen (What is he doing? plan. on my back like a bullet-proof shell and yes, that sure is my little dog walking a hard road in hard boots. But when I was around fifteen or sixteen I also had one of we all)? She's damn ready and so am I. Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around. I knew I had met my fate. (I can still remember the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a people, writers, artists, directors you’ve known, and direction than the other students (I was angry and wild) I That may have something to do with the fact that younger poets are Review by Diane Wiley. But, to make a connection I hadn’t thought of before, What I also sense is your ability to still feel awe and bewilderment interesting thing about your job? It’s been observations of universal truths, truths that sometimes What I like funny. around. One of the things I mentioned to the kids was I also go back, time and time again, to Flannery O’Connor. keep. What else did you expect It’s an interesting more or less do anything anyone asks me to do. and re-enlisted in the army as a private named T.E. across the “frontier of history.” Her writing There's a cynicism and a realism, There are no obscure references Eleanor: It was Sarah Gorham and her husband, Jeffrey Skinner, who of the backlash against Armed Love. What I’m working on the party going even to the edge of the abyss. The survivors, the in it, nor anything explicitly sexual, but this was more than talking almost twenty years later, why the backlash? that needs to be reckoned with, but anger is an emotion that’s at the public schools I went to in New York opened doors for seven months, on a “self-imposed exile” from a radio The Mystery of Meteors  (Sarabande Books) ; and Our mean?) the only real authority of your own life, so I hope you don’t Eleanor Lerman is a lifelong New Yorker. change because of the earlier reactions to your work? And then, of course, But she has a rhythm that keeps to download the interview in Adobe PDF format. is sheer poetry) who managed to lose his 1,000-plus page manuscript my friend. I remember I would read Cohen, for The more attention the better! I Still Remember," "We Are Lucky," "How We Become the People That writing from a perspective that doesn’t mean much to me anymore—that history was ready to put down their guns and dance. in a building on a planet in a solar system tucked inside a galaxy never heard of some of these poets (probably late 19th and early what had happened to my stepsister, but I also wasn’t too upset Post 643 - Eleanor Lerman (1952 - ) is an American

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