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Audio Interviews with Tess Gallagher |
In this 1986 interview with Don Swaim, the poet Tess Gallagher talks about growing up as the child of a logger in the Pacific Northwest. She recalls the stillness of the forest, and the larger-than-life images of the trees. Remembering the past forms the basis for many of her poems. She reads her poem, "Sudden Journey," and talks about the influence of her husband, Raymond Carver, on her writing. "It's all right to be a little lost when reading poems," says Tess Gallagher, "It's not necessary to understand everything. It's important not to lose a sense of the unknown. Poems don't always give themselves all at once." Listen
to the Tess Gallagher interview with Don Swaim, October 20, 1986 These files are for your personal use only. Tess Gallagher,
author of A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry,
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years With Ray, Carver
Country, and many more, begins talking in this 1990 interview
with Don Swaim about Raymond Carver's early years in high school.
She talks about Carver trying to fit in at school, his grades, and
how his teachers felt about him. Later in life, Raymond Carver developed
a problem with alcoholism, and Tess Gallagher tells about what he was
like as a writer and as a person. Listen
to the Tess Gallagher interview with Don Swaim, November 8, 1990 These files are for your personal use only.
Listen to the Raymond Carver interviews by Don Swaim, October 28, 1983 These files are for your personal use only. Listen to the Raymond Carver interviews by Don Swaim, October 9, 1986 These files are for your personal use only.
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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio. © Ohio University |
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