I have to say that I’m quite old-fashioned. Of course he may change that tradition, but at the same time that tradition takes for granted all that came before it.” In your view, have today’s writers changed literary traditions for better or worse? I don’t think a man can do much by himself, since after all, he has to use a language, and that language is a tradition. But I suspect that every generation rewrites, with very slight variations, what the other generations wrote. In 1981, you conducted a lengthy interview with Jorge Luis Borges, where he says: “Personally, I suppose all writers are writing the same book over and over again. Willis and Tony Barnstone Interlitq’s Californian Poets Interview Series: Willis and Tony Barnstone, Poets, Scholars, Translators, and Artists interviewed by David GaryanĬlick here to read Willis Barnstone’s poems Interlitq’s California Poets FeatureĬlick here to read Tony Barnstone’s poems in Interlitq’s California Poets FeatureĭG: Let’s begin with a question for Willis: You’ve met and worked with many renowned persons of our time.
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