Jennifer Timmer Trail Interview

Jennifer Timmer Trail Interview

Jennifer Timmer Trail, Self-Portrait

From the series Cassiopeia A.

From the series Saccharine.

From the series Rapture.

I mention Ulysses, and this is my favorite design—the Random House hardcover. Perfect Covid reading.

And one of the funnies things I’ve ever read—Don Quixote by Cervantes. The projectile vomiting by Sancho into Quixote’s mouth is hilarious. I recommend the Edith Grossman translation.

Poet, translator, and essayist Ezra Pound was one of the great innovators of Modernist poetry in the 20th century.

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn

And this is the sculptor, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska who Pound quoted, and who was killed in World War I.

Jen and I both talk about Alec Soth, who was one of our instructors in grad school.

I also mention the ancient Greek poet, Sappho, who was a great innovator of lyric poetry. This image isn’t her, this is a woman from Pompeii, but everyone uses it to stand for Sappho, so why not. Sappho’s poems are mostly fragments that point to what she was doing, yet still she has influenced writers and readers for 2,600 years.