Conversation …

… Poetry You Can Touch: An Interview with Rhina P. Espaillat by A. M. Juster. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The thing is to make them feel that this is not so sacred that it can’t be touched by human hands. You have to make poetry theirs, and you make it theirs by bringing them into that life. I told it with a little trimming of gossip. “Can you imagine what the servants thought when their boss Menelaus was not there? This handsome young man from Troy comes in and stays with the queen. What do you think?”