Conversation Pieces: Selected Interviews: Eric Greinke

 

Conversation Pieces

Selected Interviews

Eric Greinke

Presa :S: Press

ISBN 97831251-6-7

2012   $15.95

“I think there may be magic hiding beneath what

we normally consider the mundane. I think poetry

has a unique power to penetrate, to open doors of

perception into a deeper, more wholistic vision.”

Within the five interviews selected for publication, Eric Greinke

gives the reader a glimpse of how the small press works and it's

history as it relates to Greinke's involvement many years ago:

“Pilot Press began as a conscious effort to market

our writings...as we settled into it we centered on

those aspects of the art which we saw as having the

greatest moral value and aesthetic clarity.”

Each interview lends to an overall look-see at the poet

as publisher and writer.  Greinke journeys the reader

from beginning to the present day and his current,

Presa :S: Press success. His devotion and energy to the

poetic community is astounding and deserves praise:

“The small press today continues to be where the pure

poetry is published,...there is no way to become an

instant poet...MFA programs insulate students from

the struggle of real life to a degree, & also tend to

over-analyze & intellectualize what is essentially

a non-rational, creative process.”

Greinke tells us about his writing life as well as the

publishing life of a poet. What Greinke speaks about

applies now and will always apply because he is a

principled poet with a commitment to the community.

“In 'The Broken Lock,' the doors of perception opened...

I think one can approach poetry from either inside-out

or outside-in. The result is fundamentally the same.”

“The creative process is exciting to me and sustains

my interest as a means of transcendentalism. The more

I practice Zen self-discipline, the more naturally it flows.”

Irene Koronas

Poetry Editor:

Wilderness House Literary Review

Reviewer:

Ibbetson Street Press