Wave Composition

Ed Sugden
“I think my poems—say in Mean Free Path—are at their most personal when there is simultaneously a sense of the first-person as a node in a system (grammatical, economic, etc) and as a medium of lived experience. I am writing out of my experience most directly when I am writing about my difference from myself in time, which means what’s authentic about my voice has to be discontinuity as much as continuity, right?”

Michael Heitkemper-Yates
“Narrative, it seems to me, is by nature immersive, both for the writer and for the reader. You may stay on the surface of a text in the sciences, or in scholarship generally, but story is meant to draw you inside. From the oral taletellers to the present time, the artist’s task and reader’s joy is this absorption in story. It’s why we laugh aloud while reading, why we cry at the movies. And it’s what we fear to lose in the more restless digital world.”

Stephen Ross
“I think writers are always realists. I think Joyce in Finnegans Wake is a realist. What is interesting is the question of what’s real.”

Christian Bök discusses:
The Xenotext, science and avant-garde futures

China Miéville discusses:
Surrealist influences, genre fiction and cityscapes