THE PARIS REVIEW, WALLACE SHAWN AND MARK STRAND

In questa complessa ed articolata conversazione Wallace Shawn mette a nudo la concezione poetica di Strand.

THE PARIS REVIEW 

WALLACE SHAWN

I started reading that thing that that guy wrote about you. But it upset me, because he kept talking about the themes of your writing, and I didn’t get it. I don’t think I really get the concept of “themes.” So I’m not going to ask you questions like, What is your view of nothingness? because I don’t get that, exactly.

MARK STRAND

I don’t get it either. And I’m not sure I could articulate a view of nothingness, since nothingness doesn’t allow a description of itself. Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness...