As too frequently, Buffalo gets boxed into / known only as the place where it snows-a lot. Some of the poems dress for the WNY weather. All of this shows up in the book in some form. The people, the rhythm, the difficulty in its history, the underdogliness running through her veins. That seems long enough to feel like I’ve discovered some of its soul. I’ve been in Buffalo for eight years now. ![]() Could you discuss how that community and region influenced this book excluding what people from elsewhere might assume about Buffalo?” ZS: OK, how about, “I know you’re active in Buffalo’s literary community. I heard the lake collect all of August in an empty fog. I heard the grain silos echo in a prayer of shadows. I heard a jet plane take over the sky but couldn’t see it. Realized there’s music in everything, particularly in those new / unwritten chapters. Noah Falck: I rented a 26-foot-long truck and drove it out of the state of Ohio and into the “City of Good Neighbors.” I lived in awe in this new city and tried to archive the imagination in whatever form it was presented. For example, how would you reply to a question like, “Could you tell me about how you started writing these poems excluding any mention of poetry?” ![]() The meaning of “excluding” varies, from “avoiding” to “mourning,” from “excepting” to “imagining a world without.” I wonder if we could start in a related way. Zach Savich: Each poem in Exclusions highlights something that’s been left out (“Poem Excluding Landfills,” “Poem Excluding Pilates”).
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