Hemant Sareen interviews Jeet Thayil:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.It’s a pleasure to be asked such a question, because it means you hear poetry as speech. [Not] just [as] words on a page. Reason why lots of us don’t hear poetry is because a legion of school teachers come between us and the poems. They tell us that poetry has to be about the great grand subjects and not about things that matter to you and me. And we forget that what poetry really is a man or a woman talking to you.
Jeet Thayil interview now available at http://bookpostindia.blogspot.com/