Brutus, Dennis - Palaver interview (essay date 1972)
Palaver interview (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Interview with Dennis Brutus," in Palaver: Interviews with Five African Writers in Texas, Bernth Lindfors, Ian Munro, Richard Priebe, Reinhard Sander (eds.), The University of Texas at Austin, 1972, pp. 25-36.
[In the following excerpt, Brutus speaks to an African literature class about the personal experiences and literary influences that shape his poetry]
I'm glad to be here, and it seems to me the most useful thing I can do is to spend most of the time answering questions on the things that interest you. I ought to warn you that I don't know all the answers, and when it comes to poetry, even my own, I don't always give the same answer to the same question. This may sound odd, but I believe one tends to look at the same thing at different times in different ways. I think only dead people don't change, and even they putrify so that there is a form of change.
Another thing I should say...
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