{"id":3578,"date":"2025-09-15T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:26:19","slug":"a-short-interview-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"A Short Interview with Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reader:  Your chapbook \u201cDiaspora of Things\u201d stems from the occasion of dismantling your mother\u2019s house.  In the commentary, I read that the speaker moves from inert mute grief and disorientation to a greater understanding of differences and similarities \u2013moving towards a polyphony.<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Excellent reader. I wish I\u2019d said that!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: I\u2019m thinking about the word polyphony. <\/em>You use words that start with \u201cpoly\u201d often.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A My neighbor has a booming voice, and my windows are open.  Her name is Polly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: Right, no A\/C.  Polyphony. <\/em>I keep tripping over my tongue. A rolly poly word.  It seems to move a lot.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: That\u2019s its charm!  There is no one way to nail it down.  It\u2019s defined by what it\u2019s not \u2013 one thing.  Much or many, from the Greek.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: Say it again! First a dog was barking, now someone\u2019s blaring \u201cIn-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: What beautiful, understandable nonsense.\u00a0\u00a0Qua language.\u00a0\u00a0So polyvocal. If you clear your ears, you might hear trees talking too.\u00a0\u00a0You know, things talk.\u00a0\u00a0Not just birds at dawn or cooing doves or roving cats.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: Hmm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: A web of languages; a talking universe.  Communicating. <\/em>The highwire act of cicadas.  Burbling fountains.  The wind that thumbs plush grass pale, then back to green.  Things valued for their voices.  Things freed of possession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: What, you hear voices of grass?  I thought that\u2019s what schizophrenics suffered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Of course I hear voices.  After my mother died, I carried her voice in my head, the running dialog we had, for at least two years.  My brain was a loom strung with diverging lines about how to live.   That aside, poets intuit deep into reality.  We scrape away a lot of cliches to use our common language to speak a deeply webbed truth.  It might sound chaos, but it\u2019s our chaos.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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