Words Hit against Words

Tom Beckett today recalled our yearlong co-interview, which ended last May and over six hundred pages in length. (I think the point of his blog was to note my occasional, or maybe frequent, gaseousness, but I might have missed something.)

That project—because everything we do is a project, even poetry, certainly life—was an exhausting one. We didn't write every day, but we came fairly close, and some nights I was writing three pages in response to Tom. The most interesting aspect to the projec...