What is the working title of your book (or story)?
My latest book is FutureBlues from Salmon Poetry (2012). Also working on some new stuff.
Where did the idea come from for the book?
I wanted to do something different from my last collection (in both above-mentioned instances) and push myself forward. I didn’t want to just do the same thing over and over.
What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters, in a movie rendition?
It wouldn’t be the kind of film where there were actors, necessarily. The closest analogue I can think of is the work of abstract filmmaker Stan Brakhage (if that is not too presumptuous on my part). He did occasionally film shots of himself, his wife, and poets who were friends of his.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
“Inasmuch as any poet’s work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or less than chronological time, Future Blues is the collection that follows its immediate predecessor and so cannot help but be aware of it” (from the back cover description of Future Blues).
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Future Blues was recently published by Salmon Poetry. The next one is a chapbook-length thing that doesn’t yet have a publisher. Poets don’t usually work with agents as far as I know.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Future Blues is poems 2003-2012.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Muses.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Future Blues cover art is a painting by Kyle Fitzpatrick called “Theater,” which is a dark-hued, red-hued, textural, surreal painting of a theater being flooded in a rainstorm, like out of a dream or something.
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I’ll pass this along to (tag) a few other people at some point soon.
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