Thank you, Sir Robert, for your generosity and insightfulness in this interview, and for everything you do in general to promote a sense of authentic connectedness that’s so vital to poetry and Poetkind!
I’m pleased to present part 2 of the Q&A with poet Stephanie L. Harper:
If you were a poetic form, which would you be?
I would be a poetic form that could seep down into darkness, molecule by molecule, through miles of porous rock, to return to the wellspring, then rise again to the surface, and wash over the grief-stricken with the all immensity of love and joy in my depths. I’m pretty sure that would make me an elegy.
What themes or traits will readers find in your work? What will they not find?
My work is chock full of mythological creatures, archetypal symbolism, and nature imagery (i.e., birds, seascapes, wolves, forests, volcanoes). It touches often on spirituality (and/or religiosity), sometimes alludes to current events (and associated dismay), and has an overall feminist and philosophical bent. My love for and awe of my children shows up a lot, too…
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Your she-leopard recall gives me shivers … were your young children watching with you? Being a mother might make the impact stronger, but thinking it’d be unnerving for a child to watch … and yet, clearly demonstrates natural intuition re what to DO when the unthinkable has happened. (I would be a flop as a she-leopard!)
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Yes, Jazz, exactly! It’s a good thing I’m just a plain old human, and I’m terrified of the catastrophe I would be in the face of the unthinkable.
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