Michael Edwards

Joey Yearous-Algozin, author of A Feeling Called Heaven (Nightboat Books), interviewed at The Believer.

JYA: “There’s that beautiful Williams poem I wish people knew better called “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.” In that poem he has this argument about the ships of Troy—it’s a large catalog of ships, it’s super boring, in The Iliad. Williams’ argument is that it serves as a way to make the poem take longer. You add all these ships and so it takes longer because that’s a pleasure.”

Read the whole interview here.