For as long as I’ve known myself, social issues have been more important to me than anything else. In Recife the shantytowns were my first truth. Long before I felt “art,” I felt the profound beauty of struggle.
For as long as I’ve known myself, social issues have been more important to me than anything else. In Recife the shantytowns were my first truth. Long before I felt “art,” I felt the profound beauty of struggle.
“One of the things that seems to impel me is it never made any sense to me to separate the genres so much. Ideally, I would move towards incorporating poetry into narrative. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t even move in and out of poetry. A lot of poets stick a lot of prose in their poems now. What holds the separation in place is, I think, money.“
Ronald Sukenick