12.03.2009

Diaspora













Juliana Spahr (from Chicago Postmodern Poetry):

1) Where did you grow up? Was poetry and writing part of that mix?

Chillicothe, Ohio.

There was little poetry and writing. But we didn't have a television so I read a lot of books. Mainly novels. And a lot of newspapers, news magazines, etc. Although books of any sort were hard to find at the time. The public library didn't have a big collection. The only bookstore in town was Christian. (This is still true.) In high school I used to hang out at
the community college library but I couldn't check stuff out there so I would go there in the evening and just read for a few hours.


Au contraire, Juliana! There is the completely trivial BookWorld on Bridge Street. Not much poetry, but they do have a section devoted to paranormal romance.

(thx to Andy at Leaky Pillow for the evidence)

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