Interview for Rumpus by Ani Smith

here is the interview

I continued to write today, it felt food.

the words starting flowing easily.

It was like I rembered how to write.

the fingers were moving.

last night I sat next to my book shelf, picked up Ezra Pound and read random poems from Personae, Pound always notifies me of what needs to be done, Pound is always there, I go and sit with Pound at he kitchen table, before he became a nazi, and he talks to me about writing, about beauty, how to drink it, how to find it, how to succumb to it, the sounds, he tells me about how the oldest known language is the songs that Brahmans sing, and that no one knows what the words mean, and that when scientists put them through a machine, the sounds resembled the algorithms of birds, he says I must find the algorithm.